# Portrait of William Leete Stone

- By: William Page (American, 1811–1885)
- Date: 1839
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 91.4 x 73.6 cm (36 x 29 in.)
- Culture: United States
- Credit line: Gift of various donors by exchange
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.171)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1961.171/1961.171_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.