Portrait #96

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Porter, Alexander James
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1840?
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:48 x 40
  • Image Dimensions:34.5 x 27
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:7/2/2003
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Waist-length seated nearly frontal of a young man in formal attire with a white shirt and vest, a black tuxedo coat. He is seated and his left handrests on the arm of a red chair. His right hand is out of the frame. He has brown eyes and dark straight hair of medium length parted over his left eye.
  • History:Work was fire damaged ca. 1996 and was subsequently cleaned by Lyzon.
  • Notes:Sitter was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris. Tamany Wood, which became Riverwood Mansion, was his home.