Alexander Telfair Telfair, Alexander, 1789-1832--Portraits Upper class--Georgia--Savannah Men--Georgia--Savannah Plantation owners--Georgia--Savannah Telfair, Alexander, 1789-1832 Image of an oil portrait of Alexander Telfair (30 1/8 X 64 1/4 in., circa 1830). The Telfair family of Savannah, Georgia was one of the most prominent in Georgia during much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Alexander Telfair assumed control of his family's considerable plantation and business operations around 1818, following the deaths of his brothers, Josiah and Thomas Telfair. New Georgia Encyclopedia Telfair Museum of Art Color photographs Paintings (visual works) http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-8567 http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3148 Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia 1830 Savannah (Ga.) Chatham County (Ga.) Courtesy of Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah.