Portrait in pastel of May French, daughter of 19th Century TN author Lucy Virginia French. Painted by and signed "Augustin Gattinger" (1825-1903) Tennessee artist. The following is from the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee: Augustin Gattinger was born February 3, 1825 in Munich, Germany and died July 18, 1903 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a botanist, artist, and medical doctor who, in 1901, published the first extensive catalog of Tennessee botany entitled Flora of Tennessee and Philosophy of Botany. This book remains a great contribution to the study of botany in the South. He arrived in the United States in 1849 after being dismissed from the University of Munich for participation in dissident student groups and the celebration of George Washington?s birthday. After spending some 15 years practicing medicine in Chattanooga and East Tennessee, his pro-Union sympathies forced him to flee to Nashville in 1864. He served as an assistant surgeon in the United States Army and also served as State Librarian; 42"H 36"W 30.5 24.5; Condition: losses to frame

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