Description: FOLK ART PORTRAIT OF MATTHEW STACY
Oil on canvas, unsigned. Circa 1860 folk art rendering of an older Matthew Stacy: Born Jan 21, 1799 in Kentucky, Died Mar 29 1885 in Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Illinois. Originator of female learning center in Morgan county 1846, slavery abolitionist and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, politician and eventual Mayor of Jacksonville.