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William Major of "Fairview" Plantation, Culpeper County, Virginia, (painting). Artist:  Wright, Jefferson, 1798-1846, painter. Title:  William Major of "Fairview" Plantation, Culpeper County, Virginia, (painting). Dates:  1831. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  28 1/8 x 24 in. (71.5 x 61 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right, in white rectangle:) Jeff: Wright/Painter 1831 signed Description:  Portrait of William Major of Fairview Plantation. He is holding a document in his hand resembling a newspaper. Subject:  Portrait male -- Major, William -- Waist length Dress -- Historic -- Nineteenth Century Dress Object -- Written Matter -- Newspaper Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2800 Grove Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23221 Accession Number: 88.61.1/2 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of LaRue, family of, Rippon, West Virginia Horton, Frank, 1701 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Formerly in the collection of Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 424 South Main Street, P.O. Box 10310, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27108 Purchased from Sumpter Priddy, III, 704 Westover Road, Richmond, Virginia 23225 1988. Remarks:  Source reports that this is from the second set of portraits by Wright of William Major and Mrs. Major (IAP #57740221) painted in 1831. Painting descended in Major family before acquired by Frank Horton. References:  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. "American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in association with University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, pg. 82. Illustration:  "American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in association with University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, pg. 83. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 55740220   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 55740220 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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