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  • Record No:29767
  • Accession No:95-108.
  • Subject/Title:John Christian Schetky (1778-1874).
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:Before 1860
  • Owner/Location:TN State Library and Archives 403 7th Ave. N. Nashville, TN 37243-0312 Web Contact: Preservation - State Library
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  • Materials/Media:Photographic print
  • History:P117a. Portrait not in book "Portraits in Tennessee Before 1866."
  • Notes:Son of Johann Georg Christoph Schekty, a composer and cellist of Hungarian descent. Appointed Marine painter to Kings George IV, William IV, & to Queen Victoria. Professor of drawing at Royal Naval College. Work exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy, 1821.
  • Categories:Portrait paintings; Men; Artists; Teachers