Portrait of a Gentleman
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Portrait of a Gentleman

Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · ca. 1820

watercolor on ivory
Smithsonian American Art Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian American Art Museum

It is unclear who the young gentleman in this portrait is, but his formal dress and fashionably disheveled hair suggest that he was a member of Charleston’s moneyed class.

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