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Mr. Rutherford
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About this work
This miniature is attributed to Henry Inman, but we do not know anything about the sitter, Mr. Rutherford. His gathered sleeves may have been padded to add extra volume, as was the fashion during the 1820s. In Henry Luttrell’s poem Advice to Julia, these “buckram-wadded shoulders” astonished “all beholders.”
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMr. Rutherford. ca. 1820. Henry Inman, born Utica, NY 1801-died New York City 1846. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer. CC0.
