Portrait #266

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Donelson, Margaret Branch
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  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:30 x 24
  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:1/10/2004
  • Condition:Fair
  • Description:Older woman with dark brown hair parted in the middle with prominent
  • Notes:Subject (?-1871) was the wife of General Daniel Donelson. She was one of nine children of John Branch (1782-1863) and Elizabeth Foort. John Branch graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1801, studied law, was a judge in the Superior Count, a State Sentator, Governor of North Carolina in 1817, US Senator, then Secretary of the Navy under President Jackson.