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Polk, Lucius and Sarah

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  • Subject/Title:Lucius J. Polk and Daughter Sarah Polk
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  • Artist:Washington Bogart Cooper
  • Date Created:1844
  • Owner/Location:Sarah Burch Gratz/ Memphis
  • Frame Dimensions:59x50
  • Image Dimensions:52x43
  • Materials/Media:Oil
  • Date Documented:2021
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Lucius Junius Polk and his eldest daughter, Sarah Rachel Pole Jones at age 11.
  • History:Lucius Polk was brother to Leonidas Pol and cousin to President James K. Polk. He married Mary Ann Eastin in the East Room of the White House during the Jackson Administration. Sarah Polk was their eldest daughter of 11 children. They built and lived at Hamilton Place near Columbia TN.
  • Notes:Washington Bogart Cooper was probably the most popular portrait artist in the nineteenth century in Nashville, TN.