Joel Hawes
Medium
Classification
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number
S/NPG.86.153
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Art Historical Context
**Joel Hawes** is a striking print portrait from around 1849, crafted by Francis D'Avignon (1813–c. 1871), a mid-19th-century artist whose work graces the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collections. This piece captures Joel Hawes, a prominent male clergyman, in a format typical of the era's portraiture, emphasizing dignity and character through precise lines and shading. Housed in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, it exemplifies how prints served as accessible reproductions of notable figures. In the antebellum United States, clergy like Hawes held significant cultura...