Artist: Unidentified Artist, Sitter: Frederick Douglass, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Frederick Douglass

Unidentified Artist

c. 1845

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
Stretcher: 70.2 x 57.5 x 3.8cm (27 5/8 x 22 5/8 x 1 1/2")
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery
Credit line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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 near Easton, Maryland