Portrait #761

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Donelson, John (Jackie) IV
  • Artist:Earl, Ralph E. W.
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:10 x 8
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  • Materials/Media:photographic print on paper
  • Date Documented:12/6/2005
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Black and white copy of a man seated wearing a double-breasted vest with 8 covered buttons. His silvery hair is wavy and has a windswept quality. A cape or drape rests on his right shoulder and that hand rests on a table. His left hand rests on the arm of a chair. An architectural element/column (?) is on the left side of the composition.
  • History:This photograph is the only record of one of a number of paintings stolen from Cleaveland Hall, Easter weekend 1986.
  • Notes:The subject lived from 1784-1840. He married Eliza Eleanor Butler.