Description:Frontal three-quarter-length portrait of a man seated in a wooden chair. He has brown hair parted down the middle, and a brown mustache. He is wearing a white shirt and vest, with a steel blue suit. He is holding papers in his proper right hand.
History:Signed: LR: Cecilia Beaux
Notes:Sitter is one of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art founders. Brooks was a prominent Memphis family in the late 19th - early 20th-century. Provenance: Gift of the sitter's wife. - Gift of Mrs. Samuel Hamilton Brooks Image courtesy of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art - Reproduction by permission only.
