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Portrait of a Boy
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About this work
Charles T. Webber worked in a Cincinnati portrait gallery where clients had the option of having their portrait painted from a photograph or from a sitting with the artist. Photographs from this period generally show the sitters posing with solemn self-consciousness for the slow-moving camera equipment. In contrast, the animation, charm and pleasant disposition that this portrait conveys suggest that Webber painted the boy from life.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePortrait of a Boy. 1868. Charles T. Webber, born Cayuga Lake, NY 1825-died Cincinnati, OH 1911. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ralph A. Kreimer. CC0.
