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From: "JaSEn" <>
Subject: Re: [INLAWREN] Rare Oil Portrait
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:30:38 -0500

Contact the Bedford Public Library
http://www.bedlib.org/
They have the newspapers on microfilm and will help you....


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Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 9:16 AM
Subject: [INLAWREN] Rare Oil Portrait


> I have a copy of an article published in the Bedford Sunday
> Herald-Times, Oct 4,1970, Bedford,IN titled: WOMAN OWNS RARE OIL
> PORTRAIT. I am trying to locate the portrait of my ancestor Nannie
> ROUT, and the book about Patrick Henry DAVENPORT (artist) by Dr. WHITE,
> if it was ever completed.
>
> Part of the article reads as follows:
>
> A request from a University of South Alabama professor for information
> about a traveling Kentucky portrait painter known to have worked in this
> general area somewhere between 1825 and 1875 has been answered by a
> Lawrence Countian.
>
> Mrs. hale THOMPSON owns one of the paintings of Patrick Henry DAVENPORT,
> a portrait of a young woman. The painting is signed on the back, P.H.
> DAVENPORT, 1858, as he is said to have signed each of his paintings as
> he moved from town to town.
>
> The request, published recently in this newspaper, came from Dr Judson
> WHITE of the university of South Alabama. Dr. WHITE is doing research
> for a book he plans to write about the artist for the Illinois Stale
> Historical Society.
> According to Dr. WHITE, DAVENPORT moved from his native Kentucky to
> Illinois, painting portraits from town to town along the way. He
> describes DAVENPORT as "considered to be a talented artist."
>
> Dr. WHITE indicated that any information provided will be included in
> his book, and that he intends to give recognition in the book for
> assistance rendered.
>
> Mrs. THOMPSON'S painting was inherited from her mother, Mrs. L.L.
> ADAMSON, who was, before her marriage, Nellie Cytha ROUT. Mrs. ADAMSON
> always referred to the woman in the painting as "Aunt Nannie," according
> to Mrs. THOMPSON, the subject is believed to be a sister of Mrs.
> THOMPSON'S grandfather, Wesley ROUT.
>
> If anyone has any info about the above article or access to the original
> article about the request, please write. I am the gg-granddaughter of
> Wesley ROUT. Mrs. THOMPSON, before marriage was Beulah ADAMSON and her
> mother, Nellie Cytha ROUT was my g-grandfather's, (Eldridge ROUT)
> sister.
>
> Cathy
>
>

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