Henry Lee (1691-1747)

Artist: Unknown
Date: ?

Henry Lee was a son of Richard Lee II and Laetitia Corbin Lee. He married Mary Bland and they lived at Lee Hall. According to a later family historian, this portrait was destroyed by fire. However, it was recorded in his son’s 1765 will.

Reference: Appears in son John Lee’s will: “I give to my brother Henry Lee my picture and those of my Father and mother,” in Edmund Jennings Lee, ed. Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of The Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee (Philadelphia, 1895), 285-287.

Family: Lee
Decade: Unknown
Attributes: man
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