# Portrait of a Gentleman

- By: John Alexander McDougall (born 1810/11-died NY 1894)
- Date: ca. 1835
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) diam.
- 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=17001)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ae61d053f83ed07c66d4a3e2a30115ce.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This was originally thought to be a portrait of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney by an unknown artist. Research has proved this not to be the case, however, and the identity of the sitter is unknown. The work has been attributed to the artist John Alexander McDougall.