Portrait #1667

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Murfree, Matthias Brickell IV
  • Artist:Davis, Goode P.
  • Date Created:1983
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:21 1/2 x 17 1/2
  • Image Dimensions:13 1/4 x 9
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  • Materials/Media:Pencil on paper
  • Date Documented:2008
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Pencil on paper drawing made by artist of child's face before artist actually painted a three-quarter length portrait. Unusual today because artists generally take pictures to use for portraits. Hard for the subject, particularly since it involved many sittings.
  • History:Goode P. Davis also painted the portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that hangs at Hyde Park. This portrait commissioned by subject's parents.
  • Notes:Subject is a graduate of Rhodes College and Vanderbilt University Law School. Subject currently practices law in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.