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Portrait of a Boy
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In this portrait the artist captured the forceful and confident personality of a boy. The youth wears a jacket, red vest, and a stylish white cravat with an upturned collar, suggesting his future role in society as an upper-class gentleman. The sitter was probably eleven or twelve years old when his portrait was made, but his identity, as well as the artist’s, is unknown.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePortrait of a Boy. ca. 1800. Unidentified (Italian). Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mabel Johnson Langhorne. CC0.
