History:Bust portrait of a middle-aged man with brown eyes and hair. He has a full beard and moustache showing traces of white. He is wearing a black suit, white shirt, and black cravat held by a beaded pin. The subject faces the viewer while looking to his right. The portrait is mounted in an ornate rococo gilded frame with oak leaf corners and spiraled fruit and flowers. The top corners have been repaired but not restored to match.The portrait was painted at a cost of $100 by William Stamms Shackelford of Clarksville, TN and presented by Mrs. Paralee Haskell who was State Librarian in 1876.
Notes:William Turner Haskell (1818-1859) was born in Murfreesboro, TN and educated at the University of Nashville. He was a poet, orator, conversationalist and a dreamer. He served in the Seminole War in 1836, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1838. Haskell practiced law in Jackson, TN and represented Madison Co. in the state house in 1841. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1847 to 1849 as a member of the Whig party. He died in Hopkinsville, KY in 1859.
