Henry White
1882
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 146.69 × 116.05 cm (57 3/4 × 45 11/16 in.) framed: 154.62 × 125.73 × 6.35 cm (60 7/8 × 49 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Margaret R. White Bennett
Accession Number
2018.111.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Léon Bonnat · 1833–1922
**Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat** (1833–1922) was a prominent French painter, renowned portraitist, art collector, and influential professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. Born in Bayonne, he spent his formative years from 1846 to 1853 in Madrid, where his father ran a bookshop. There, while assisting in the family business, he copied engravings after Old Masters and received training under the Spani...