Lot 873
Southern School, c. 1830., "Matthew Nugent Brandon (1792-1841)" and "Louisa Spencer Austin Brandon (d. 1874) of Mississippi", pendant pair of oils on canvas, unsigned, 36 in. x 29 in., matching gilt frames. Provenance: Brandon/Barrow/Bedgood House at Greenwood Plantation, Pinckneyville, Mississippi Note: The distinguished son of Irish-born immigrants Gerard and Dorothy Nugent Brandon, Matthew Nugent Brandon was born on Selma Plantation at Washington, Mississippi, near Natchez and married Louisa Spencer Austin in 1831. His elder brother, Gerard Chitteque Brandon (1788-1850), was the first native-born governor of Mississippi and with his wife Charlotte Smith Hoggatt Brandon (1821-1877) built Brandon Hall, north of Natchez. Their brother William Lindsay Brandon (1802-1890) was a Bridgadier General in the Confederate Army and lived at Arcole Plantation in Wilkinson County, Mississippi with his wife Ann Eliza Ratliff Brandon (1812-1842) of Ellersie Plantation. Both of Matthew Brandon's brothersbrothers commissioned the Charleston artist Theodore Sindey Moise to paint their portraits. Moise did portrait work in Louisiana from 1841 to 1884. The pendant pair of portraits of "Matthew and Louisa Brandon" reflected their...
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