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called Colonel William Fairfax (1691-1757)
Artist: Unknown
Date: ?
This portrait appears to have descended in the family. Colonel William Fairfax built Belvoir in Virginia. He was a relative of and agent for Lord Fairfax, one of the Proprietors of the Northern Neck of Virginia.
The subject appears to be a young man wearing armor under a jacket and inside a painted oval frame.
See: Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 80 (1944), after p. 234; FARL
Family: Fairfax
Location: Belvoir Plantation
Decade: Unknown
Credits: Essex Institute Historical Collections.