# Thomas Davis

- By: James Alexander Simpson (born Georgetown, DC 1805-died Baltimore, MD 1880)
- Date: ca. 1815
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 15 x 11 7/8 in. (38.2 x 30.1 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Allen Little
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=24632)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3619964cec1c486c31b3168991e9ae57.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.