Painted portrait of William Bullock Inge
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Inge, William Bullock
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Painted portrait of William Bullock Inge
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The portrait of William Bullock Inge was painted in the late 1840s by an unknown artist, presumably an itinerant who visited his Greene County, Alabama plantation called Nutbush. Inge was one of the first students to enroll at the University of Alabama, and by 1836 he had completed bachelor's and master's degrees. After graduating, Inge became a plantation owner in Forkland, Alabama, and in 1839 he married Elizabeth Brock Herndon, the daughter of a major Alabama enslaver. Inge is listed in the 1860 slave census as enslaving 106 people. His portrait hangs in the entry hall of the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama beside a pendant portrait of his wife. In 2015, a white Inge descendant, Dr. W. Russell Hollman III of Birmingham, Alabama paid for the cleaning and conservation of the paintings.
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This oil on canvas painting features a half-length view of William Bullock Inge in middle age, wearing a black suit and cravat and high-collared white shirt. He holds an ivory-topped wooden walking cane and wears a gold "E"-shaped pin, which marks him as a former member of the University of Alabama's Erosophic Society, one of two college literary societies. The pin also features the University's Rotunda building and is inscribed with the society's motto, Sapientia Praestat Omnibus, meaning "Wisdom Precedes All."
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unidentified artist
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1840
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Hollman, W. Russell III
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Robert O. Mellown, "William Bullock Inge," Alabama Heritage (Spring 1995): 42-44.
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