Portrait #1412

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Branham, John
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:33 1/2 x 28 1/2
  • Image Dimensions:29 x 24
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:14 May 2008
  • Condition:Very Good
  • Description:Subject sitting facing viewer, his left arm resting on a table holding an orange covered book. He is wearing a black coat and cravat or bow tie and a white shirt. He has dark hair and brown eyes.
  • Notes:Subject grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, learning the stone masons trade. He returned to Tennessee to hia mother and step-father, Bright Harris, on Station Camp Creek and worked in Nashville as a stone mason. He fell in love with and married Mary Ann (Polly) Parker, daughter of Thomas Parker on 11 May 1820.