# Portrait of a Gentleman

- By: James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
- Date: 1800
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (7.0 x 5.7 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=38367)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/eb07ef74bae946aeff75d9334799ad26.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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 \[see 1948.5.1\].