Portrait #1288

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Grundy, Felix
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:7 x 5 1/2
  • Image Dimensions:2 x 1 5/8
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  • Materials/Media:2 x 1 5/8
  • Date Documented:21 April 2008
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Subject is facing slightly to viewer's right and looking a viewer. He wears a black coat, cream-colored vest with white shirt and scarf tied in bow. He has greying hair, receding on sides, and piercing blue eyes.
  • History:This came to current owner through grandfather's family, Richard King Gibson, Jr. It hung in the dining room of Elizabeth Varnell Gibson Madden.
  • Notes:Born 1777 and died 1840 in Nashville. He was a Congressman, a U. S. Senator and a Democratic leader. Born in Virginia; lawyer at age 20.