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OriginalNotes: "Biography of James Thomas Poindexter (1832-1891)"  (Accessed February 12, 2021 : artprice.com)
"Comments: Began his career in Kentucky as an itinerant. Working at Evansville (IN) as early as 1852-c.1860 and established himself as a leading resident portrait painter. Returned there after the Civil War, during which he had served as a telegraph operator, and remained until 1882; also worked in New Orleans 1870-71 and in Granada, MS. He traveled to New York and Boston and was in Italy. He eventually returned to Kentucky and is listed in the Louisville City Directory in 1889. / Sources: G&W; Peat, Pioneer Painters of Indiana; Burnet, Art and Artists of Indiana. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 257; Jones and Weber, The Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, 62-63 (w/repro.)"

New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, p. 509
James Thomas Poindexter, born June 6, 1832 in Christian County, KY. Died June 10, 1891. During Civil War he was telegraph operator.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 February 2021), memorial page for James Poindexter (6 Jun 1832 - 10 Jun 1891), Find a Grave Memorial no. 67145051, citing River View Cemetery, Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Paul Thomas (contributor 47083009) .
Has his painted portrait. Wife Nannie P. Poindexter (1822-1896, married 1852)

Family trees on ancestry.com list his parents as Thomas James and Phoebe Ann (Culpepper) Poindexter. Per the 1850 Hinds County, Mississippi census, the father Thomas Poindexter was also a portrait painter.

Courier & Press (Evansville, Indiana), August 23, 2012
"Evansville Museum exhibition celebrates 19th-century portrait painter's work" by Roger Mcbain (Accessed February 12, 2021 : archive.courierpress.com)
"He left during the Civil War to serve as a telegraph operator for the Army of the Confederacy, and worked painting portraits in Louisiana and Mississippi before returning to Evansville in 1871. His name appeared in city records until 1882. He died in Eddyville, Ky., nine years later."

Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, Kentucky), June 20, 1891, p. 1
"Death of J. T. Poindexter. Mr. J. T. Poindexter, once a prominent portrait painter of Evansville, and later of Louisville, died suddenly at Eddyville, a few days ago, aged 62."

Pioneer American Photographers, 1839-1860 [Chris Steele blog) (Accessed February 12, 2021: pioneeramericanphotographers.com)

1850 Census, District 1, Caldwell County, Kentucky [town not listed on page; Princeton is county seat]
Thomas J. Poindexter, 19, male, telegraph opoerator, b. Christian Co, Ky
Living in the F. H. Thomas hotel

Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900 (ancestry.com)
J. T. Poindexter married Nannie L. Marshall on January 15, 1852 in Caldwell County, Kentucky

Evansville Daily Journal (Evansville, Indiana), August 4, 1852, p. 2
"Mr. Poindexter, a portrait painter of much merit, has just arrived here from the South.  We hope he may be induced to remain among us for a time. The Daguerreotype business has had the effect to drive all inferior portrait painters to some other business, while good artist alone are left, and they appear to be well patronized.  A well painted portrait cannot be excelled by any Daguerreotype, and it has the advantage of correct coloring to make it a more life-like work of art. We hope sufficient inducements will be offered Mr. P. to urge him to stay here awhile, and leave with us some of the works of his skill."

Evansville Daily Journal (Evansville, Indiana), August 7, 1852, p. 1
"Portrait Painting, T. Poindexter, Portrait Painter, has taken the rooms in Foster’s building, at head of stairs, where he would be pleased to have citizens call and examine his specimens of painting. He intends remaining in Evansville but a short time, and would request those desirous of having their portraits painted to call soon. He promises to give satisfaction, and only asks patronage as he may deserve it. Aug7-tf"

Evansville Daily Journal (Evansville, Indiana), September 27, 1852, p. 2
"Mr. Poindexter, Portrait Painter, has been taking some excellent Portraits. Mr. P. is not only capable of taking correct likenesses, as fine as we ever saw, but his pictures are good as works of art. They are not surpassed as paintings, by the works of those artists who are considered the best portrait painters of the West, we defy any painter to make better likenesses. Our citizens have been patronizing Daguerreotypist very freely, but one of Poindexter’s portraits are worth fifty Daguerreotypes -- while to patronize him is to aid an artist, who has devoted a lifetime to his profession."

1880 Census, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 622 Gum Street
Thomas Poindexter, 48, artist, born Kentucky
Nancy Poindexter, 53, wife, keeping house, born Kentucky
Sarah Poindexter, sister, 41, congestion of brain, b. Kentucky
Nancy Marshall, 17 neice, born Mississippi
Thomas Marshall, 14 nephew, at school, born Mississippi
Jennie Poindexter, 16, servant, b. Kentucky

1881 Bennett & Co.'s Evansville City Directory for 1881, p. 270 - James T. Poindexter, portrait painter, res 622 Gum
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OriginalSource: Evansville Daily Journal (Evansville, Indiana), April 25, 1853, p. 2
Daguerreotypes! The subscriber respectfully informs the public generally that he has resumed the above buesinss with which he has long been familiarly acquainted, and designs establishing a permanent Daguerrean gallery in Evansville in Fosters buildings, corner of Main and First streets. . . .His reputation as a portrait painter is too wel established in Evansville and elsewhere to need remark further than that he will be happy to accommodate any desiring his services in that branch of art. Thos. Poindexter. Ap20."
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OriginalSource: Evansville Daily Journal (Evansville, Indiana), September 21, 1857
"At Home.  Having returned to remain but a short time, the subscriber would respectfully invite those who may desire his artistic services to make it known without delay, as he has calls abroad that should not be neglected.  A good likeness warranted, either from life or a good Daguerrean or Ambrotype picture.  Studio first floor above and entrance through the store of A. C. Pushee.  See Specimens.  Thos. Poindexter." [ad ran through November 23, 1857]
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