# Portrait of Mr. Wiley

- By: Kenyon Cox (born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919)
- Date: 1894
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 15 x 17 in. (38.1 x 43.2 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Ambrose Lansing
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5898)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/9ada8a8d39f358a642479227d2e99e44.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Further research might establish the relationship between Mr. Wiley and Kenyon Cox. In the year he painted this portrait, Cox was under contract with Bowdoin College to create mural decorations for the new Walker Art Center, designed by prominent architect Charles F. McKim. Wiley sits in a library, which suggests that he might have been a member of Bowdoin’s academic community.