Painted portrait of George Rainsford Fairbanks
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Memorial Artwork
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Visual Work of Art
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Painted portrait of George Rainsford Fairbanks
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This portrait of George Rainsford Fairbanks is among the historical portraits of the founders and officials of the University of the South hanging in Convocation Hall. Fairbanks, who enslaved as many as 100 persons on his Florida properties, was an important trustee from that state who led in the founding and construction of the university. During the Civil War, Fairbanks served in the Army of Tennessee’s Commissary Department and spent much of his wartime overseeing Confederate hospitals in the Atlanta region.
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Oil on fabric. Framed size: 39.25" x 34".
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1858
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Position: 131 (25 views)