Mr. Drury
ca. 1850
Medium
Painting-Miniature
Classification
Painting-Miniature
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
Accession Number
1953.7.5
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
It is unclear who the sitter was for this portrait. The figure wears a frilled shirt and patterned cravat, with a stock of matching fabric tied high around his neck.
About the Artist
Thomas E. Barratt · 1814–1914
**Thomas E. Barratt** (born ca. 1814 in England) was a British-born miniaturist and portrait painter who spent much of his career in the United States. He emigrated after 1833 and established himself in Philadelphia, where he became active as a painter of small-scale portraits, often executed in watercolor on ivory. Barratt specialized in intimate, finely detailed likenesses that captured the sit...