Artist: James Herring, Sitter: Noah Webster, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Noah Webster

James Herring (12 Jan 1794 - 8 Oct 1867)

1833

Medium
Oil on wood
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
Panel: 81.3 x 69.9 x 1.3cm (32 x 27 1/2 x 1/2")
Culture
United States
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery
Credit line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of William A. Ellis
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

View at the Smithsonian Institution

About this work

Born West Hartford, Connecticut