Talk:James Gettys (founder of Gettysburg)

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This page needs update with material from Melissa geddes's research, which includes his service during the revolutionary War.

I have added a high quality image of the portrait painted circa 1814 by Jacob Eichholz, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Eichholtz of Pennsylvania, a noted portrait artist.

As to authentication of this image, I inherited it through my family directly from James Gettys son James Gettys Jr. I have had it recently cleaned and slightly restored by B.R. Howard of Carlisle, PA. I have just loaned it for display in the Adams County Historical Society museum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in the Samuel Gettys Tavern exhibit. It was a previously unknown Eichholz portrait, until the cleaning and restoration in early 2024, when, due to a layer of paper on the back of the portrait's removal, Eichholz's signature was discovered. The comment of Tom Ryan, President of Lancaster History and editor of the definitive work on Eichholz is that is "a very fine example of Eichholz's early work", when I showed it to him two weeks ago.

Please use this image in place of the terrible image of a copy made of this original portrait that has been the only picture of James Gettys, founder of Gettysburg available.

JimGettys (talk) 18:10, 24 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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