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Portrait male -- Morgan, Calvin
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Calvin Morgan (1773-1851), (painting).
Artist:
Unknown, painter.
Title:
Calvin Morgan (1773-1851), (painting).
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
26 x 30 in. (66.0 x 76.2 cm).
Subject:
Portrait male -- Morgan, Calvin
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Restricted Owner, Columbia, Tennessee
Remarks:
Born July 1, 1773 in Connecticut, the son of Gideon Morgan and Patience (Cogswell) Morgan. On Jan. 20, 1801 married Sara Fackler. Built the first cotton gin in Knoxville, where he operated a mercantile business. Trustee of East Tennessee College and Knoxville female Academy. Died on Aug. 19, 1851 in Red Sulphur Springs, Virginia.
References:
National Society of Colonial Dames, Tennessee, "Portraits in Tennessee Painted Before 1866," 1964.
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 81770338
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