# Member of the Mayfield Family

- By: George Place (Irish, born Dublin, Ireland 1760 or 1775-died Lucknow, India 1805 or 1809)
- Date: ca. 1805
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (7.3 x 5.8 cm.)
- 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=19751)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/db58a339ff207ccedcd2a0056e55fd0a.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Until we learn more about George Place’s life and career, it is impossible to know if the artist painted this member of the Mayfield family in the United Kingdom, the United States, or in India. The gentleman’s features appear lifelike, but his disproportionally large head and wide eyes create an unnatural composition.