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Portrait of a Man
William Beechey (British, 1753–1839)
c. 1800
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 75.2 x 63 cm (29 5/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- England, early 19th Century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Anonymous Gift
- 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
The subject’s elongated, slightly softened facial features and vaguely detached air are typical of William Beechey’s elegant portraits of male subjects. The jacket worn by the sitter is probably a naval uniform. Beechey enjoyed a very successful painting career in London. In 1793 he was appointed portrait painter to Queen Charlotte and was knighted in 1798.
