Portrait #389

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Scruggs, Mr. W8
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1815
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:2.5 x 2
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Oval slightly right profile bust-length of a man with predominant wigs/tufts of brown hair rising around his ears. His hair is combed forward toward his high forhead. His eyes are light-colored and his eyebrows are noticeably bushy. He wears a white shirt, vest and tie with two buttons visible. His coat is black.
  • History:Exhibited Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000 Possibly attributed to Shaver Probably painted in E. Tennessee where it was purchased at a Scruggs family estate sale.