African-American Figure
James Goodwyn Clonney
c. 1840-1850
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 29.53 × 16.83 cm (11 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of J. William Middendorf, II)
Accession Number
2015.19.2652
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
James Goodwyn Clonney · 1812–1867
James Goodwyn Clonney (1812–1867) was an American genre painter and miniaturist whose warm, gently humorous depictions of rural and small-town American life place him among the most appealing practitioners of the antebellum genre tradition. Born in England and brought to the United States as a child, he studied drawing and miniature painting in New York and worked for a period as a miniature portr...