Portrait #144

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Cocke, John
  • Artist:MacKenzie, F. J.
  • Date Created:1929
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:37 x 32
  • Image Dimensions:29 x 24
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:7/14/2003
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Bust-length three-quarter right profile of a man in dark suit and white shirt with a white bow tie. He has ruddy cheeks and hair parted over his right eye. The background is dark, as is the overall palette of the work.
  • History:This work is a copy of a portrait housed in Knoxville. The detail was done to assist the owners in restoring the original. This copy may lighten upon cleaning.
  • Notes:Subject was "major general in the Army, Congressman, state senator, and lawyer." He was born in 1772 and died in 1854.