Portrait #1087

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Guild, Judge Josephus Conn
  • Artist:Dury, George
  • Date Created:ca. 1876
  • Owner/Location:Rose Mont Mansion Gallatin, Tennessee
  • Frame Dimensions:46 x 39
  • Image Dimensions:36 x 29
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:1 February 2008
  • Condition:Good - 2 holes in canvas on either side of subject's head
  • Description:Subject is sitting facing left wearing a smokers robe covered in red flowers, white shirt collar with black scarf at collar. Subject about 74 years old with some gray hair. The subject is holding a white rectangular object in his left hand.
  • History:Portrait was commissioned by the Nashville Bar Association and first hung in the courthouse in Nashville, then was displayed for a time at Vanderbilt University.
  • Notes:Born in 1802 and died in 1883