# Emily Smiley Snowden

- By: Charles Peale Polk (born Annapolis, MD 1767-died Richmond Courthouse, VA 1822)
- Date: 1793
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 35 5/8 x 30 7/8 in. (90.5 x 78.4 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Frederick E. Kline
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=19764)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/4c0b562e37f4cbb45d2cd57eff6bb713.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.