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Portrait of a Gentleman
John Trumbull (born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843)
ca. 1790
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (8.9 x 8.9 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- 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
This portrait of an unknown gentleman was painted while the artist was in London in the late eighteenth century. It shows an older, distinguished man with a powdered wig and extravagant cravat.
