Description:Frame is gilt chased copper with hair opening in back containing grey hair. Oval of a man with short curly brown hair and large blues. Sideburns nearly to jawline. Dressed in black coat with three buttons buttoned for a tight fit. Blue vest(?) and white shirt without tie. Rendering has a pencil-like quality, especially on hair.
History:Painted in Charleston, SC. Exhibited Cheekwood 1992; Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000. Illus. Hunstville Catalog / The Magazine Antiques, Sept. 1981, p. 392, in E. G. Paine advertisement.
