File:Alexander Spotswood by Charles Bridges (Colonial Williamsburg copy).jpg
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Summary
Charles Bridges: Q121788918
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| Title |
Portrait of Alexander Spotswood (1676–1740), a British Army Colonel and Governor of Virginia |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1736[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 52 in (132 cm); width: 39.5 in (100.3 cm)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia,  United States of America |
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| Notes | The painter made two copies of the work in 1736. One, hanging in the Governor's mansion at Richmond in 1952, was presented by Philip A. Spotswood to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1874. Another, which this image is of, was sold to Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated, by I. N. (Louisa Beverley Turner) Jones.[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00002441mets.xml | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ a b Foote, Henry Wilder (January 1952). "Charles Bridges: "Sergeant-Painter of Virginia" 1735–1740" (Subscription required). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 60 (1): pp. 12, 31, and plate facing p. 31. Virginia, United States: Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0042-6636.
- ↑ Kelly, Kevin; Carson, Cary (ed) (1999) [1998] "Taking Possession" in Becoming Americans: Our Struggle to be Both Free and Equal (Second printing ed.), Virginia, United States: Colonial Williamsburg, pp. p. 37 Retrieved on 10 April 2010. ISBN: 0-87935-167-5.
- ↑ Havighurst, Walter (1967) Alexander Spotswood: Portrait of a Governor, Williamsburg in America, 5, Virginia, United States: Colonial Williamsburg, pp. Fronstispiece
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| 12:35, 18 April 2010 |  | 800 × 1,012 (267 KB) | Jappalang | {{Information |Description=Portrait of Alexander Spotswood (1676–1740), a British Army Colonel and Governor of Virginia, by Charles Bridges. The painter made two copies of the work in 1736. The first, hanging in the Gover |
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