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  • Record No:73.68
  • Subject/Title:Troost, Gerard
  • Artist:Baker,William Henry
  • Date Created:Before 1866.
  • Owner/Location:TN State Museum 505 Deadrick Street. Nashville, TN 37243 Web Contact: TN State Museum
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  • Image Dimensions:34 X 44.75
  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas.
  • Notes:Gerard Troost (1776-1850) was a professor of chemistry at the University of Nashville from 1826 until 1850. Born in Holland, Troost was an educator and scientist and became the first geologist of Tennessee.
  • Categories:Portrait paintings; Scientists; Geology; University of Nashville; Men.