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Emily Smiley Snowden
Charles Peale Polk (born Annapolis, MD 1767-died Richmond Courthouse, VA 1822)
1793
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 35 5/8 x 30 7/8 in. (90.5 x 78.4 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Frederick E. Kline
- 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
No documentation exists regarding Charles Peale Polk’s commission to paint Emily Smiley Snowden. But it is possible to guess at her social and economic position from the imported silk of her dress, her hand-painted fan, embroidered shawl, and Chippendale chair.
