Portrait #409

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Polk, James Knox
  • Artist:Earl, Ralph Eleasor Whiteside 1785-1838
  • Date Created:1829
  • Owner/Location:James K. Polk Ancestral Home 301-305 W. Seventh St. Columbia, TN 38402 931-388-2354 www.jameskpolk.com/new/
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:30 x 25
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/14/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Waist-length of Polk as a congressman. He is wearing a high-collared white shirt, white cravat, grey vest and black jacket. The orientation is frontal but slightly left as his right ear is not visible as is his left.
  • History:Painted in Washington DC in 1829. Conserved in 1983, presumably by Cumberland Art Conservation Center.