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Study for "Portrait of James Cornell Biddle," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Thomas Sully (1783 – 1872)
1841
- Medium
- Brush and oil paint on paperboard
- Classification
- Portraits
- Dimensions
- 43.7 × 27.6 cm (17 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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 Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Three-quarter length portrait of a male figure, seated in an armchair, facing the spectator. A book is held in his left hand, a finger in the volume, marking a place.
