Unknown Yale Student
Charles Wesley Jarvis
1801 to 1825
Medium
watercolor and graphite on bristol board
Dimensions
sheet: 15.2 × 13.3 cm (6 × 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection
Accession Number
1979.20.70
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Charles Wesley Jarvis · 1812–1868
**Charles Wesley Jarvis (1812–1868)** was an American portrait painter and the second son of the renowned New York artist John Wesley Jarvis. Born in New York City, he followed directly in his father’s footsteps as a portraitist during the mid-nineteenth century. As the son of one of the leading portrait painters of the early republic, Jarvis trained in the family studio and absorbed the techniqu...