Rev. John Bell Hamilton (1807-1887), (painting).

Rev. John Bell Hamilton (1807-1887), (painting).

Cooper, Washington Bogart, 1802-1889, painter.

Rev. John Bell Hamilton (1807-1887), (painting).

Digital Reference:

Oval: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm).

Portrait male -- Hamilton, John Bell -- Bust

Occupation -- Religion -- Clergy

Cater, Alleen Williams, 327 Easton Circle, Birmingham, Alabama 35223

Formerly in the collection of Cater, Howard Williams, Mr. & Mrs., Anniston, Alabama

One of three Cooper paintings which originally hung at Kennedy Place, the home of the John B. Hamilton family and the Thomas Hamilton Williams family of Columbia, Tennessee, later Anniston, Alabama, and now Birmingham, Alabama. The paintings were commissioned by the John B. Hamilton family of Columbia, Tennessee. All three were inherited by Irene Williams Cater of Anniston, Alabama.

National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama, Historical Activities Committee, "Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870," Moblie, AL: NSCDA, 1969.

Cater, Alleen Williams, 2019.

Colonial Dames, "Alabama Portraits," Mobile, 1969, pg. 147.

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