Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.o. Box 571 Jackson Mississippi 39205
Date:
Ca. 1818
Notes:
Speakes, Vera Jacobs, "Mississippi Portraiture," Laurel, MS: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Mississippi and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1987, pg. 219.
Pennington, Estill Curtis, "Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920," Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011, pg. 15.
Summary:
Portrait of John Richard seated in an interior with his body turned to the left and his gaze directed toward the viewer. He wears a dark jacket with a white tie and shirt, and his short hair is brushed up across his forehead. In the background drapery is pulled back to reveal a window.
