Biografie von J. Z. MENDENHALL (XIX)
Profession: Portrait painter
Comments: Known only for his portrait of the ninety-year old Revolutionary veteran William Harrington, painted in 1850.
Sources: G&W; picture caption by Lincoln Kirstein, Magazine of Art (April 1944), 146; Peat, Pioneer Painters of Indiana, 235, indicates a J.B. Mendenhall at Indianapolis in 1871-72.