# Portrait of a Gentleman

- By: Sarah Goodridge (born Templeton, MA 1788-died Boston, MA 1853)
- Date: 1821
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (7.0 x 5.7 cm) oval
- 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=9340)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b510a832dad371208d5d3ff1305d5273.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The inscription on this miniature states it was made November 20, 1821, and was in the “Collection of Edward A. Brown, Reading, Mass., descendant of the artist.” It is probably a portrait of a member of the Appleton-Brown family, to whom Sarah Goodridge was related by marriage.