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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 382648, member: 59"]You're in luck. I had a bit of time and did a little research in anticipation. Henry was a government clerk in DC from at least the time of the 1850 Census until sometime between 1870 and 1880. In the 1880 Census his occupation was listed as "watchman." He married Elizabeth Clementine Lloyd in 1852 (his second wife, the first having died only 2 years after they married in 1843, apparently in childbirth or from childbirth complications.) An interesting note - in the 1870 Census Elizabeth is running the large boarding house in which they were living and the value of said real estate is listed as hers, not his. Henry served for 3 mos in 1861 in the 3rd Battalion of the District of Columbia Infantry as a corporal. From a couple other public trees I gather that his father (who died in 1818 in Alexandria, VA) was a cabinetmaker, as was at least one of Henry's brothers, Randolph. I assume you are aware of the "itinerant painters" in colonial and early US times whose paintings often show up on the Roadshow and who are mostly unidentified. I'm not at all sure how well-off you had to be to afford to have one of them paint your portrait. I have no way of knowing who painted the portrait. One thing that would interesting to explain is why his son was buried in the Congressional Cemetery.[/QUOTE]