# Portrait of a Boy

- By: Unidentified (Italian)
- Date: ca. 1800
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 27 x 25 in. (68.6 x 63.5 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mabel Johnson Langhorne
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=25046)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/1639a2858ca13d993db7fe69dd8432a1.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In this portrait the artist captured the forceful and confident personality of a boy. The youth wears a jacket, red vest, and a stylish white cravat with an upturned collar, suggesting his future role in society as an upper-class gentleman. The sitter was probably eleven or twelve years old when his portrait was made, but his identity, as well as the artist’s, is unknown.