Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portrait of a Gentleman
Unidentified · ca. 1850
In this miniature the unknown artist emphasized the gentleman’s severe grooming and stern facial features to suggest a serious temperament. The decorative brass frame accentuates the stickpin in his shirt, and both details point to this sitter’s middle-class status in the mid-nineteenth century.
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