# John Tower

- By: James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
- Date: 1806
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (6.7 x 5.3 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=38365)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/228842b72e6b5f1335fc1e30d2a7fcfd.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The only clues to this man’s identity are the interlocking initials “JT” on the back of the locket, and the miniature’s descent in a branch of John Tower’s family. It is presumed that this man was John Tower, who was married to Elizabeth Cruger, granddaughter of John Cruger, who was mayor of New York from 1739 to 1744.