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Portrait of Leonard Cox
Louise Cox (American, 1865 - 1945)
1895
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 11 3/4 x 12 in. (29.8 x 30.5 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Allyn Cox
- 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
Leonard Cox was one year old when his mother painted this portrait. Leonard later studied at Princeton University. After graduation, he fought in Europe during World War I and became a decorated war hero. His mother received a bronze medal for this painting at the 1900 Paris Exposition, a public triumph that helped establish her reputation as a painter of children.
