Robert Creswell (1773-1850), (painting).

Robert Creswell (1773-1850), (painting).

Meenerbreuker, Johannas, d. 1850, painter.

Robert Creswell (1773-1850), (painting).

Digital Reference:

Sight: 35 x 28 in.

Portrait of Robert Creswell seated in a red upholstered chair, his body turned slightly to the right, his right arm resting in his lap, his left arm resting on a table beside him, and his gaze directed toward the viewer. He wears a black suit and a white shirt and tie, and his white hair is cut short.

Portrait male -- Creswell, Robert -- Waist length

Occupation -- Law -- Lawyer

Rusch, Catherine Rea, Gulfport, Mississippi

Formerly in the collection of Rea, Jessie Webb Black, Birmingham, Alabama until 1963.

Rea, Robert Creswell, Sylacauga, Alabama 1963-2010.

Robert Creswell, born May 1, 1773 and died Sept. 11, 1850, was a lawyer admitted to the bar in 1795. On Sept 22, 1812 he married Mary Davis, born Sept. 24, 1791 and died April 24, 1861. He practiced law in Charleston, South Carolina before moving to Eutaw, Alabama in 1833 with his wife where he amassed a large amount of land and was a planter. Robert Creswell and wife Mary Davis Creswell had 9 children with 3 living to adulthood. A son, Samuel Lewis Creswell married Louisa Whiteford Walton of Strawberry Hill in Greene County, Alabama in 1845. This couple had 5 children, including Samuel Lewis Creswell (born1859) and a daughter, Justina Walton Creswell, born 1854 (who married Robert Edward Black in 1880. The painting was formerly in the collection of her daughter, Jessie Webb Black Rea, who had this portrait in her home in Birmingham until her son, Robert Creswell Rea, inherited it in 1963 when his mother died. The painting remained in his collection until it was given to the present owner in 2010.

Rusch, Catherine, 2013.

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