Auction Name: 2026 February 26 Historical Manuscripts & Texana Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 47025

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/6328*47025

Sam Houston Original Painted Portrait. 11 1/2 x 16 inches, mixed media (pencil, ink, and gouache?) on card stock. No date, but possibly from life. A chest-up portrait of Houston in middle-age, wearing a frock coat and tie with a silver harp breast pin. Margaret Houston's estate in 1868 listed a harp breast pin. We could not find any other images of Houston wearing this pin suggesting this portrait may have been done from life or made for personal family use.

Condition: Moderate edgewear, including small chips and a long vertical tear at the left edge. Some spotting to Houston's face and chest, with several small spots of delamination. Verso heavily toned with dampstaining present.

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