The image shows three children in a seated position from the waist up. The child on the left is a young boy with short, light brown hair. He wears a black suit with a bow tie and a white shirt and holds a small object. The two children on the right are young girls with shoulder-length brown hair and large white bows. They wear matching blue dresses with silver embellishments. The girl in the middle holds a book. The background is plain beige.
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The Younger Generation

painter Sturtevant J. Hamblin (American, active 1837/1856)

c. 1850

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 55.5 x 68.2 cm (21 7/8 x 26 7/8 in.) ; framed: 67.9 x 80.6 x 6.3 cm (26 3/4 x 31 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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