# Mr. Nichol

- By: John Wesley Jarvis (born South Shields, England 1780-died New York City 1840)
- Date: 1809
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.5 x 6.0 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=11388)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/05fbb5bd60003ee73399599dd8c5c379.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This may be a portrait of William Nichol, whose wife was painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1809, the same year as this portrait. Conservation of this miniature was made possible through a generous grant provided by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.