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Portrait of a Gentleman
Alvan Clark (born Ashfield, MA 1804-died Cambridge, MA 1887)
1836-1844
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory in a sterling silver frame
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- image: 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.7 x 6.1 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
This unknown gentleman is wearing a wide-collared frock coat and white satin cravat. In 1837, the Gentleman’s Magazine of Fashion described a white cravat as “almost indispensable in full dress” and it was sometimes tied to cover the entire shirtfront.
