# Portrait of a Gentleman

- By: Raphaelle Peale (born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=19315)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b275174c4890b8b0b81383bc9faa3dd8.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.