biography of James McCormick EACHES (1817-1847)

Birth place: Alexandria, VA

Addresses: Alexandria, VA, as of 1838; New Orleans, February 1842

Profession: Portrait painter

Exhibited: NAD, 1838; Alexandria (VA) Assoc., April 1956 (Portraits of Early Alexandrians")"

Comments: A son of Mayor Joseph Eaches (of Alexandria, VA) and the older brother of Hector Eaches (see entry). Painted a self-portrait at the age of 17.

Sources: G&W; New Orleans CD 1842; New Orleans Picayune, Feb. 2, 1842 (courtesy Delgado-WPA); Cowdrey, NAD. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 123; Wright, Artists in Virgina; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.

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