Portrait #129

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Maury, James Philip
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1865
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:37 x 32.5
  • Image Dimensions:29 x 24
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:7/15/2003
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Waist-length three-quarter right profile of a young man dressed in a black jacket, plain white starched shirt and black neck scarf. He has brown eyes and short brown hair combed to his right. The length of his hair comes to the middle of his ears and one lock is lightly separated on his forehead, which is high. He has brown eyes. No flesh is visible save his face.
  • Notes:Sitter was born in 1804 and died in 1875 He was postmaster at Franklin, TN in 1844 under Polk adminstration. More documentation in the file