Artist: Charles Bird King, Sitter: John Caldwell Calhoun, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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John Caldwell Calhoun

Charles Bird King (26 Sep 1785 - 18 Mar 1862)

c. 1822

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
Stretcher: 77.5 × 64.5 cm (30 1/2 × 25 3/8")
Culture
United States
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery
Credit line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to…
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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