# Judge Thomas Ewing

- Date: ca. 1840
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.5 x 6.0 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alexander Vernon Wasson
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=6806)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/5e617e3561c633b83f6715bf0698df8c.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Judge Thomas Ewing, born in West Virginia in 1789, began his career as a schoolteacher in Ohio. He went on to practice law and in 1830 was elected to the U.S. Senate. This portrait shows Ewing at around fifty-five years old, about the time he became secretary of the treasury for President Tyler.