Portrait of a Gentleman
Thomas E. Barratt
ca. 1840
Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in (5.4 x 4.4 cm)
Classification
Painting, miniature
Culture
British
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006
Accession Number
2006.235.8
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenPortraits
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...