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Portrait of a Gentleman
American1800-1825
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Head and shoulders portrait of a young man with dark brown hair, wearing a black coat with white stock tie. The arrangement of hair on the back of this miniature is sadly damaged, but is an elaborate example of its type. The use of gold wire in the form of ears of wheat and half pearls is typical. Miniature painters were often also skilled in working hair.
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- Title: Portrait of a Gentleman
- Creator: American
- Date Created: 1800-1825
- 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: American
- Provenance: Huntington Collection [brother of Mrs. Henry E. Huntington of New York and California]; A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation, Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
- Object Type: miniatures (paintings); portraits
- Medium: watercolor on ivory, hair, pearls
- Inscriptions: [Label] On reverse: 56
- Geography: Place of Origin: United Kingdom
- Dimensions: H excluding frame: 2 1/2 x W: 1 7/8 in. (6.4 x 4.8 cm) Framed H: 3 5/16 x W: 2 3/16 in. (8.4 x 5.5 cm) (including loop)
- Credit Line: Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
- Classification: Miniatures
- Accession Number: 38.454
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