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Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials G. D.
Raphaelle Peale (born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825)
ca. 1805
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 2 1/2 x 2 in. (6.4 x 5.2 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- 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
The intertwined initials “GD” on the back of this locket are the only clue to the gentleman’s identity. His hair reflects the change at the end of the eighteenth century, when many younger men rejected wigs in favor of natural hair. The short top and curled sides of this sitter’s hair were styled to accommodate a top hat.
