Portrait #11

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Hayes, Oliver Bliss (Sr.)
  • Artist:Cooper, Washington B.
  • Date Created:1843
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:48 x 40
  • Image Dimensions:35 x 27.5
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:5/7/2003
  • Condition:5/19/2003 Good
  • Description:Elderly man wearing a white starched shirt and a black suit and tie. He is seated and in three-quarter left profile. Both hands are visible. The artist's signature is above the subject's right hand.
  • History:The work, painted in Nashville, was restored "many years ago by Ms. Pinner."
  • Notes:The subject was born May 21, 1783 in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Clements Hightower in 1812.