# David Livingston

- By: Joseph Wood (born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830)
- Date: 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)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=38382)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/127ed7a18df509ec6928c220caa8fd5f.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.