Portrait #75

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Guthrie, James
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1850
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:43 x 36
  • Image Dimensions:30 x 25
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:6/11/2003
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Oval waist-length three-quarter right of balding man in a dark suit, plain starched white shirt and black necktie. He has dark curls of hair for sideburns. He has high pink coloring on his nose, chin, and (visible) right cheek.
  • History:Restored by Cumberland Art Conservation in the 1980s.
  • Notes:See documentation in the file. Sitter born 12/5/1792 and died 4/13/67. He was the son of Gen. Adam Guthrie, portrait #74. Sitter was Sec. of U.S. Treasury in Pierce administration; a U.S. Senator from Louisville, KY 1865-1869 (death); President of the L&N Railroad and President of the University of Louisville.