File:Alexander Spotswood by Charles Bridges (Colonial Williamsburg copy).jpg

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Charles Bridges: Q121788918  wikidata:Q121788918 reasonator:Q121788918
Artist
Charles Bridges  (1672–1747)  wikidata:Q18641990
 
Description English painter
Date of birth/death 2 April 1672 Edit this at Wikidata 1747 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Northamptonshire Northamptonshire
Work period fl. 1735-1745
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United States
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artist QS:P170,Q18641990
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Title
Portrait of Alexander Spotswood (1676–1740), a British Army Colonel and Governor of Virginia
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Alexander Spotswood (1676–1740), a British Army Colonel and Governor of Virginia"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1736[1]
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
[2]
Dimensions height: 52 in (132 cm); width: 39.5 in (100.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,52U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,39.5U218593
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Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America United States of America
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

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  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Havighurst, Walter (1967) Alexander Spotswood: Portrait of a Governor, Williamsburg in America, 5, Virginia, United States: Colonial Williamsburg, pp. Fronstispiece

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