Portrait #441

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Polk, James Knox
  • Artist:Unknown - copy of a Sully work
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:James K. Polk Ancestral Home 301-305 W. Seventh St. Columbia, TN 38402 931-388-2354 www.jameskpolk.com/new/
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:NA
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/14/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Bust-length slightly right profile of a clean-shaven man with fine, straight white hair combed straight back to reveal a high forehead and a receding hairline. His hair reaches just above the collar of his formal black coat and black tie. His shirt is white.
  • History:This work is a copy of a work by Sully. Believed given by the Pollk Memorial Association to the USS James K. Polk submarine when it was commissioned in 1966. It was returned to the Polk Memorial Association after the ship was de-activated in January, 1999. While on board ship it hung in the officers wardroom.