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Portrait of a Young Man
William Page (born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885)
ca. 1830-1835
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 27 x 20 1/4 in. (68.6 x 51.4 cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
- 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
William Page was at the height of his career when he painted this portrait. By 1834 he was fully established in the New York art world as a member of the American Academy, achieving the distinction of board member only one year later. These achievements left him with no shortage of wealthy patrons. Page showed this genteel sitter in his finest clothing, with rosy cheeks and lips framed by fashionably long whiskers.
