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Item #69066 Mammoth Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney, Oil on Canvas, framed. George P. A. Healy, After.
Mammoth Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney, Oil on Canvas, framed
Mammoth Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney, Oil on Canvas, framed
Mammoth Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney, Oil on Canvas, framed
Mammoth Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney, Oil on Canvas, framed

Mammoth Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney, Oil on Canvas, framed

A Mammoth Portrait of Chief Justice Taney [Healy, George P.A. (1813-1894), After]. [Taney, Roger Brooke (1777-1864)]. [Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney]. 40-3/4" x 33" (image size). N.p., n.d. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame, plaque reading "Rodger [sic] Brooke Taney/ Nat 1813-Ob 1864 / Chief Justice of the United States 1836-1864" to head of frame. A few small nicks and chips to frame, gilding slightly dulled, otherwise fine. On rear canvas inscription "Painted by Miss Strong/ Daughter of Mr. Justice Strong/ After Original in Supreme Court Room/ L.E.H. Librarian April 21, 1914." An impressive portrait. $4,000. * Taney held many state and federal political and legal positions and became chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1836, a post he held until his death in 1864. As chief justice, he is known for the notorious Dred Scott decision (1857), which ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state or territory was not entitled to his freedom and that African-Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. It also invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery west of Missouri and north of latitude 36?30.' We have not been able to determine the identity of "Miss Strong," one of the four daughters of William Strong [1808-1895], a Philadelphia lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1870 to 1880. This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802, it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library, where this portrait was last displayed, was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in 1967.

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