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Portrait of a Gentleman
Raphaelle Peale (born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825)
ca. 1805
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 in. (6.2 x 4.7 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- 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
This man’s elegantly knotted tie clearly shows Raphaelle Peale’s deft brushwork. Although we do not know who the sitter was, he was a man “of means” who could afford fine clothes and the services of one of America’s leading miniaturists.
