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PAIR OF S. CAROLINA AMERICAN SCHOOL O/C PORTRAITS 1832
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PAIR OF S. CAROLINA AMERICAN SCHOOL O/C PORTRAITS 1832
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This wonderful pair of South Carolina oil on canvas American School portraits were painted from the 1832 originals which hang in the Florence Museum. They were painted by the subjects' descendant Jane B. Evans (1866-1950), who was born in Florence, SC, portions of which were once part of Marion County. She studied art in Philadelphia as a young woman and lived in Rome for at least a year. She lived in Florence from the first decade of the last century. She founded the Florence Museum in the 1930s. She painted portraits for friends in Florence. They depict Thomas Evans, Esquire (1790-1845, a merchant, planter, state senator and master of equity in Marion, SC and his wife Jane Beverley (nee Daniel) Evans (1795-1861. Thomas Evans was son of Nathan Evans, a planter in Marion County (originally Craven County) whose father Nathaniel immigrated to Welsh Neck, SC in 1736. Thomas & Jane had one son James, who was born in 1831 and died in 1909 and was a civil engineer for the New Orleans & little Rock Railroad, state engineer of Arkansas, and erected the first levees along the Mississippi, Arkansas and Red Rivers. James was a physician regimental surgeon, 3rd South Carolina Regiment CSA (Confederate States of America) and physician of Marion County, SC until 1878. Written on the back of the canvases are "Copy By Jane B. Evans (1832) after Gardiner." Dimensions: Husband is 33 x 30 inches, framed; 28 x 24 inches, sight size. Wife is 33.5 x 29 inches, framed; 24 x 28 inches, sight size. The paintings are in excellent condition and portray a very handsome couple.
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