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William Parsons II, of Gloucester, Massachusetts
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
We do not know much about William Parsons II, except that he lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, during the mid- to late 800s and owned a schooner named William Parsons & Co. This portrait shows Parsons in formal dress and was probably painted when he was around twenty years old.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineWilliam Parsons II, of Gloucester, Massachusetts. ca. 1840. Washington Blanchard, born Cambridge, MA 1808-died Boston, MA 1855. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund. CC0.
