The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01

He was-he was-he was, brethen and sis | ters--he was a regular old Virginia gen. tleman.'
 | Gen. George H. Bingham, Missouri ar | tist, is said to have painted the portrait
 of nearly every widely known man of his time in Boone, Galloway, Howard, Saline
 and surrounding counties. He also paint
 e6 portraits of statesmen in Washington
 during his stay there. Of these the one
 of John Quincy Adams. president of the
 United States, is probably the most fa-
 nous. It was painted on a slab of Wal nut wood. Many of Bingham's pictures are owned by members of the Rollins | family of Columbus, with whom he lived l for many years. c. B. Rollins has the l portrait of President Adams, one of Bing- | ham himself when he was about 2S years old, and one of Maj. James s. Rollins Curtis B. Rollins has another of his fa- ther and one of each of his grand par
 ents. Other Columbians who have DOT traits painted by Bingham are: R. B.
 Price, three; N. T. Gentry. two; pr. J. C. Whitten, two; Marshall Gordon, one.
 Bingham also painted portraits of War
 ren Woodson, for 40 years circuit clerk in Boone county; Judge Abiel Leonard, Eli Bass, David M. Hickman, Henry w.
 Keen, Maj. N. w. Wilson, Austin A. Bradford. Gen. John Ellis and J. l.. Ste- phens. Most of them are owned In Boone county. One of Bingham's most pleasing
 portraits is that of Eulalie Rollins Huck
 aday as Little Red Riding Hood.'' The little girl was playing about the house of her grandfather, Major Rollins, one
 day. She pleased Bingham so much that
 he painted her as the little girl of story
 book fame, carrying pail through the woods. The wolf was shown in the dis
 tance.s. Major Rollins bought the picture, ard it was presented to Eulalie on her
 wedding day. She Is now Mrs. Frank w.
 Sneed of Pittsburg, Pa, and she still has the picture. Nss.
 Four Bingham Portraits
 The Mercantile libary of St. Louis has
 four of the Bingham portraits--George
 and Martha Washington. Frank P. Blair,
 E. Gratz Brown and Baron von Hum-
 boldt life-sized portrait of James s. Rollins, the founder of the University of Missouri; one of Edward Bates of St, Louis; a bust of Joseph H. Lathrop and one or two others were destroyed when the old Academic Hall buiaed in 1892. Mrs. Mary Thomas Piper of Kansas City.
 d sister-in-law of Bingham and a daugh- ter of pr. R. S. Thomas, who was for many years professor of languages in the University of Missouri, has a portrait of her father, one of her mother. one of Mrs Bingham. one of herself. and the understudy from which the picture of
 Major Rollins was pointed. E. T. Rollins of Columbia, who has been tracing Bing- hams pictures and their histories, says there was one painted of John Howard
 Payne, the author of Home, Sweet
 Home' but that he does not know where tt Is or who owns 1t. General Binghams S last work. as was his first, was or .
 member of the Rollins family The first 4l.~ cf fat T,rV, Doll and the last of G. B. Rollins. This last one was still unfinished at the artists death, SC 1t was merely vanished over and kept | that way. ?! | Many of the paintings in the state cap | itol at Jefferson City were painted by | Bingham. One of the best of these. ii was said, is the one of President Andrew | Jackson on horseback It Is called 'Old Hickory on Horseback" The big picture
 of George Washington which hangs be-
 hind the speakers chair in the capitol
 was done by Clara, Bingham's daughter
 in beads and silk ''r | Until about 1S49 Bingham painted DOT traits chiefly. Then, when he returned | from a term in the state legislature, he
 entered on a period of imaginative work
 His first work under this heading was 'The Jolly Flatboatman." Then came
 the three companion pieces. stump Speaking ''The County Election and
 i'The Result of the Election,'' portraying
 the social and political life of Missouri 50 or 70 years ago. 'Order No. H. his most
 famous picture. and others came still later. t4 The Jolly Flatboatman' was purchased by the Art Union of New York. It pics lures group of eight rivermen on the way up the Missouri river on a fiatboat One of the crew is on big coop contain-
 ing turkeys and is dancing jig to tffe
 music of fiddle" This picture is now
 owned by the Mercantile Library of St.
 Louis. eA