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    		• Grimes, John C.,
     
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    		• Portrait group -- Family
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Morgan, Rufus
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Morgan, Samuel
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Morgan, Frank
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    The Morgan Boys, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Grimes, John C., 1804-1837, painter.
    Title: 
    The Morgan Boys, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1833.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    52 1/2 x 42 in.
    Description: 
    Group portrait of the Morgan boys, Rufus, Samuel, and Frank.
    Subject: 
    Portrait group -- Family -- Siblings
    Portrait male -- Morgan, Rufus
    Portrait male -- Morgan, Samuel
    Portrait male -- Morgan, Frank
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Restricted Owner, Louisville, Kentucky
    Remarks: 
    The Morgan brothers were the sons of Samuel Dold Morgan (1798-1880), a "merchant prince" of Nashville, Tennessee, and the uncle of the famous Confederate General John Hunt Morgan. None of them lived to reach manhood.
    References: 
    National Society of Colonial Dames, Kentucky, 1991.
    Jones, Arthur F. and Bruce Weber, "The Kentucky Painter: From the Frontier Era to the Great War," Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1981, no. 47.
    Illustration: 
    Jones, Arthur F. and Bruce Weber, "The Kentucky Painter: From the Frontier Era to the Great War," Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1981, p. 108.
    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 74430153
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