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Thomas Davis
James Alexander Simpson (born Georgetown, DC 1805-died Baltimore, MD 1880)
ca. 1815
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 15 x 11 7/8 in. (38.2 x 30.1 cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Allen Little
- 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
James Alexander Simpson taught art classes at Georgetown College and painted portraits of the Washington elite. He captured the slightly disdainful lift of this gentleman’s brows and the confident, Napoleonic gesture of his right hand, tucked casually in his vest.
