Lot 466: CHARLES BALTHAZAR SAINT-MEMIN (FRENCH / AMERICAN, 1770-1852) MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF ST. GEORGE TUCKER (1752 - 1827) OF WILLIAMSBURG, VA

CHARLES BALTHAZAR SAINT-MEMIN (FRENCH / AMERICAN, 1770-1852) MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF ST. GEORGE TUCKER (1752 - 1827) OF WILLIAMSBURG, VA, engraving on paper, profile image, "St. Mn." lower left within plate. Conservation framing. Early 19th century.

3" x 2 3/4" sight.

Excellent condition.

Literature: Norfleet - Saint-Memin in Virginia, pp. 131, 215/216.

From the private collection of Dr. Charles and Elizabeth Umstott, Newport, News, VA.Charles Sessler, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

TUCKER, ST. GEORGE, born in Port Royal, Bermuda, July 10, 1752; son of Henry and Anne Butterfield Tucker; brother of Dr. Thomas Tudor Tucker; student at William and Mary, 1772, and the Inner Temple, London, 1773; returned to Bermuda to practice law, but came back to Virginia in 1777, and served in the Revolution; aide-de-camp of Gen. Thomas Nelson; active participant in the battle of Guilford Courthouse, and, as lieutenant-colonel, in the siege of Yorktown; married Sept. 3, 1778, Frances Bland Randolph (1752-1788), daughter of Theodorick Bland, of "Cawsons," Prince George Co., widow of John Randolph, of "Mattoax," Chesterfield Co., and mother of John Randolph of Roanoke; among issue by his first marriage of were Anne Frances Bland (1779-1813), Henry St. George (1780-1848), and Nathaniel Beverley (b. 1784) Tucker; member of the Annapolis convention, 1786; lived at "Mattoax" until 1788, the year he became judge of the general court of Virginia and professor of law at William and Mary; elected in 1803 to the supreme court of appeals of Virginia as successor of Edmund Pendleton, and resigned in 1813, when he was appointed judge of the district court of the U.S. for Virginia, a position he held for nearly fifteen years; married Oct. 8, 1791, Lillia, daughter of Sir Peyton Skipwith, of "Prestwould," Mecklenburg Co., and widow of George Carter, of "Shirley"; published numerous works on political and legal subjects, several dramas, and, among minor poems, "Resignation"; retired about 1825 to "Warminster," Nelson Co., the home of Joseph Carrington Cabell, and died there Nov. 10, 1827.