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Henderson Middleton Somerville, Sr. (1837-1915), (painting). Artist:  Unknown, painter. Title:  Henderson Middleton Somerville, Sr. (1837-1915), (painting). Dates:  ca. 1880-1890. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Description:  Proper right profile view of Henderson Middleton Somerville, Sr. with his body turned three-quarters. Subject:  Portrait male -- Somerville, Henderson Middleton, Sr. -- Profile Portrait male -- Somerville, Henderson Middleton, Sr. -- Bust Occupation -- Law -- Judge Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Unlocated. Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of University of Alabama, School of Law, Farrah Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 1927-1944. Remarks:  Henderson Middleton Somerville, Sr. was the son of Dr. James Somerville and Helen Glassell Wallace of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was the founder and first dean of the University of Alabama School of Law. Later he was a judge and justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. In 1890, he was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison to the Board of the United States General Appraisers Judicial Department of the Customs Service in New York City. Three copies of this portrait were painted in the early 1960s, from an earlier photograph, and are now hanging in 1) the Alabama Supreme Court Building in Montgomery, AL; 2) the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa, AL; and 3) the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, Birmingham, AL. For additional information see: "The University of Alabama, A Pictorial History," by Suzanne R. Wolfe (University of Alabama Press, 1983, pg. 75). References:  Nelson, David, 2007. 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 9D640115   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 9D640115 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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