£550
Ethan Allen Greenwood (1779-1856) American, Oil on canvas, Portrait of Mr. ' Robert Ogden AE45 ' (aged 45) holding a sample of cotton, Signed ,dated ' (18)43' and titled by artist verso, 30 x 25''. There was a Robert Ogden who married Elizabeth Spaight Nash ( became Nash-Ogden , a Famous Dynasty ) a noble family when genealogy trumped money as a dividing line between the elite and the masses and lived in North Carolina. His son, Robert ( who had four sons, Robert , Abner , Octavius and Frederick ), left in about 1810 settling first in Baton Rouge and then New Orleans. Cotton trading seems to be in the family blood.
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