# People Near Boat

- By: Edward Mitchell Bannister (born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901)
- Date: 1893
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 14 x 19 7/8 in. (35.6 x 50.4 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Harvey Golden
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=973)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/9e65cde5ab2ef15951b6e6bb32bca076.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Scholars have suggested that the bearded man in this painting might be a self-portrait. Edward Bannister rarely included African American subjects in his paintings, focusing instead on pastoral landscape scenes, which brought him greater success in the art market. (Holland, Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1992)