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Portrait of a Gentleman
James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
1800
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (7.0 x 5.7 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
Although we do not know who this man was, his elegantly knotted tie and the miniature he wears at his throat suggest he was a man of some means, perhaps a successful merchant like Howes Goldsborough, also painted by James Peale around this time [see 1948.5.1].
