Portrait of a Man
c. 1835-1840
Medium
brown ink wash on paperboard
Dimensions
image (irregular): 13.97 × 15.24 cm (5 1/2 × 6 in.) sheet: 25.88 × 20.32 cm (10 3/16 × 8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of J. William Middendorf, II)
Accession Number
2015.19.2650
About the Artist
James Goodwyn Clonney
James Goodwyn Clonney (1812–1867) was an American genre painter and miniaturist whose warm, gently humorous depictions of rural and small-town American life place him among the most appealing practitioners of the antebellum genre tradition. Born in England and brought to the United States as a child, he studied drawing and miniature painting in New York and worked for a period as a miniature portr...