History:This is a life-size portrait of the subject. The artist's signature is in the right lower corner. This painting was offered to the Tennesse General Assembly, but there is evidence that it was not accepted. It was given to the state in 1929 by Mr. Joe B. Morgan. The painted was accepted by John Trotwood Moore and moved from the mills where it had hung for years, and placed over the entrance to the House of Representatives October 1930.
Notes:Samuel Dold Morgan (1789-1880) was born in Staunton, Virginia. He moved to Tennessee by way of Huntsville, Alabama in 1833. He founded the mercantile house of Morgan, Allison & Co. and was called the "Merchant Prince of Nashville." Morgan founded the Warioto Cotton Mills and built the gun cap factory in South Nashville that produced the caps fired at the First Battle of Manassas during the Civil War. In 1843, he was selected as President of the commission to build the state capital in Nashville and he was buried in the southwest wall of the capital by resolution of the General Assembly.
