# Portrait of a Gentleman

- By: James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
- Date: 1789
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (4.3 x 3.2 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=38366)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/8003ebec492566bac613f859ececb912.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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 \[see 1952.12.2\].