Man in Yellow Chair
ca. 1820
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Accession Number
1986.65.149
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About this artwork
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 donât realistically replicate, the manâs features and the details of his costume. Most clients for such portraits lived outside the major urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, ...
About the Artist
Unidentified ( ) · –