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Portrait of a Gentleman
James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
1789
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (4.3 x 3.2 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- 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
In his dress and hairstyle, this young man is presented in a manner very similar to Josiah Hewes Anthony, also painted by James Peale around this time [see 1952.12.2].
