Smithsonian American Art Museum
Thomas Davis
James Alexander Simpson, born Georgetown, DC 1805-died Baltimore, MD 1880 · ca. 1815
James Alexander Simpson taught art classes at Georgetown College and painted portraits of the Washington elite. He captured the slightly disdainful lift of this gentleman’s brows and the confident, Napoleonic gesture of his right hand, tucked casually in his vest.
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