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  • Subject/Title:Bishop Robert Kennon Hargrove 1829 - 1905
  • Artist:No signature. Attributed to Washington Bogart Cooper
  • Date Created:unkown
  • Owner/Location:Vanderbilt University
  • Image Dimensions:29.5" x 24.5"
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Profile portrait of Bishop Hargrove wearing a black suit with white shirt and black bowtie.
  • History:Portrait hangs in Kirkland Hall.
  • Notes:Following Bishop Holland McTyeire, Bishop Hargrove became the second president of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust serving from 1889 to 1905. A native of Alabama, he had been ordained Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1882 and had been a Trustee on Vanderbilt's board since 1886.