Charles Dupee sketch, 1842

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Charles Dupee sketch, 1842

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Copy of sketch of Charles Dupee drawn by John Neagle in Lexington, Ky., on 20 November 1842. A handwritten notation states that Dupee, a slave owned by Henry Clay, was approximately 34 or 25 years of age when the sketch was made. An additional notation states that Clay emancipated Dupee on 9 December 1844.

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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Neagle, John, 1796-1865

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John B. Neagle was a portrait painter. From the description of Notebooks, 1825-1850. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616046 John Neagle was a portrait painter who lived and worked in Philadelphia in the mid nineteenth century. While serving as an apprentice to Thomas Wilson, a "coach and ornamental painter," he began to consider painting as a career for himself. He studied under Thomas Sully, and in 1818 ventured to Lexington, Kentucky, with ...

Dupee, Charles, b. 1807 or 8.

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