Accession #50.13

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Portrait of William A. Chase
  • Artist:James Hart, American, 1812-1870
  • Date Created:1839
  • Owner/Location:Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Ave Memphis, TN 38104 901-544-6200
  • Frame Dimensions:3 1/16" x 2 1/4"
  • Image Dimensions:2 5/8" x 2 1/8"
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  • Materials/Media:Watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:31 May 2008
  • Condition:Poor
  • Description:Half-length portrait of a man with brown side-parted hair. The man is wearing a white shirt and vest with a black coat and black tie. Plain white background. Encased oval miniature.
  • History:Artist lived and worked in Memphis in 1839; thereafter worked periodically in Memphis and throughout the South; lived in Memphis in the mid-late 1850s.
  • Notes:Sitter resided in Memphis at the time of the portrait. Provenance: Given by a descendant of the sitter. - Bequest of Miss Anne Chase Baker Image courtesy of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art - Reproduction by permission only.