Man in Yellow Chair
ca. 1820
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 61.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-130409
In the early nineteenth century, prosperous Americans along the eastern seaboard hired traveling artists to create their portraits in a forthright style made popular in colonial times by itinerant limners. This portrait of an unidentified gentleman follows that style, with strong lines that suggest, but don’t realistically replicate, the man’s features and the details of his costume. Most clients…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Registry history
- ca. 1820 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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