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Mr. Strong
Charles Fraser (American, 1782-1860) (?)ca. 1815
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Bust-length three-quarter profile portrait of Mr. Strong, with brown hair, with one lock falling in center of forehead, wearing a black coat with velvet collar, upright pale yellow collar, white shirt and white stock. Woven hair on reverse.
This miniature has been attributed to Charles Fraser, a painter of miniatures, portraits in oils, and landscapes. He spent most of his life in his native city of Charleston depicting its leading citizens. This miniature is not listed in his account book, nor being shown in the solo exhibition for Fraser held in 1857.
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- Title: Mr. Strong
- Creator: Charles Fraser (American, 1782-1860) (?)
- Date Created: ca. 1815
- Subject Keywords: male portraits
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Charles Fraser (American, 1782-1860) (?)
- Provenance: Havemeyer Collection; A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation, Baltimore, 1956, by gift; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
- Object Type: miniatures (paintings); portraits
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Inscriptions: [Sticker] On reverse: 35; [Inscription] On reverse, in pencil: 35.
- Exhibitions: Four Centuries of Miniature Painting from the Collections of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc. and A.J. Fink, Personally. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1958-1959.
- Dimensions: H without frame: 3 x W: 2 1/4 in. (7.62 x 5.72 cm); Framed H: 3 1/8 x W: 2 1/2 in. (7.94 x 6.35 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
- Classification: Miniatures
- Accession Number: 38.451
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