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Portrait of William Leete Stone
William Page (American, 1811–1885)
1839
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 91.4 x 73.6 cm (36 x 29 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of various donors by exchange
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Around the time this portrait of writer and newspaper editor William Leete Stone was created, he was named the first superintended of public schools in New York City. Throughout his life he passionately advocated for the abolition of slavery in the United States.
