page_title: George Dury
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: George Dury / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: George Dury (1817-1894), Catherine Schaefer Dury (c. 1830-?), and grandson George Dury Brengelman (1873-?) in garden. Tennessee State Library and Archives
context_page_description: George Dury was a Bavarian portrait painter. He emigrated to the United States in 1849, and set up as an art teacher in Nashville, Tennessee. His work can be seen at the White House and the Tennessee State Museum.
context_section_description: Dury first settled in East Tennessee, and relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 1850, where he set up a studio and worked as a portraitist. With Confederate veteran Robert Loftin Newman, he "tried to establish an Academy of Fine Arts" in Nashville.
  Dury painted portraits of William Walker and Robert E. Lee; both are in the Tennessee State Museum, as is his portrait of Montez. He also painted James D. Porter, Robert Armstrong, William Gannaway Brownlow, Andrew Johnson, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and William Brimage Bate. A portrait of Randal William McGavock is also attributed to him.
  Sarah Childress Polk sat for Dury in 1878, when she was seventy-five; a few years later, he was asked to make a copy for the White House of George Healy's official portrait of her.
caption: Dury with wife and Grandson.[7]
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