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David Livingston
Joseph Wood (born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830)
ca. 1800
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- image (oval): 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (7.3 x 6.1 cm)
- 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
One possible candidate for this portrait was David Livingston of Washington, New York, who was born around 1775. This portrait shows him in his mid-twenties, with the ruffled hair and costume typical of the romantic revival that took place at the turn of the nineteenth century.
