How can we know this? Well, first look at what’s written under the portrait above. It reads, “Ezekiel Pickens of Selma, Alabama.” The elder Ezekiel Pickens did not live in Selma. His son Ezekiel did live there: the younger Ezekiel was a circuit court judge in Selma in the 1830s and 1840s.

Second, the engraving above tells us that it was made for Biographical Sketches of Eminent Americans. Track that source, and you discover that John Livingston’s Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living; with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions (New York: Cornish, 1853), pp. 215-223, has a biography entitled “Ezekiel Pickens of Alabama.” That biography tells its readers that Ezekiel Pickens of Alabama was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in December 1794 and was the son of Ezekiel Pickens, whose father was General Andrew Pickens.

The biography of Ezekiel Pickens of Alabama is headed by the following portrait: