Portrait #624

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Overton, Judge John
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  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:1880-1900
  • Owner/Location:Travellers Rest Historic House Museum 636 Farrell Parkway Nashville, Tennessee 37220 website
  • Frame Dimensions:36 x 31
  • Image Dimensions:30.25 x 25
  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/10/2004
  • Condition:Fair
  • Description:Three-quarters right profile of a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and tie and a black coat. His silvery hair is parted on his right and his sideburns come to just below his ear. The background is a red drape and books are to his left.
  • History:Reproduction of a ca. 1820 portrait attributed to Washington Cooper, copied by Mr. Joseph H. Sulkowski and commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Wickersham June in honor of Mrs. Edwin W. Craig (Elizabeth Wade).
  • Notes:Judge Overton ,1766-1833, painted as an older man.