# Portrait of a Gentleman

- By: John Trumbull (born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843)
- Date: ca. 1790
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (8.9 x 8.9 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=24251)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/19714dd257dc0b4ef5409b68afd02d67.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.