Portrait of General Keith MacAlister
c. 1800–1810
Medium
watercolor and graphite, heightened with traces of white gouache, on paper
Dimensions
image: 13.2 × 11.4 cm · sheet: 17.4 × 14 cm
Classification
Portrait Miniature
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
Accession Number
1997.77
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About this artwork
Although it is impossible to say if it was always part of the artist’s process to execute a preparatory sketch prior to painting each miniature, we do know that John Smart retained many hundreds of these sketches. A great number were inherited by his son John James Smart, who in turn left them to his daughter Mary Ann Bose. Upon her death in 1934, they were divided between three of her children: William Henry Bose, Lilian Dyer, and Mabel Annie Busteed. General MacAlister is represented in three-...