Portrait #749

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Walton, Dr. Thomas Johnson
  • Artist:Unknown Itinerant
  • Date Created:1838
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:34 x 28
  • Image Dimensions:30 x 25
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/6/2005
  • Condition:Fair
  • Description:Balding man whose remaining dark hair forms a rounded widow's peak. His eyebrows are nearly conjoined. Seated and in formal attire, his right arm is draped over the wooden arm of a chair and his body is turned to his right to face the viewer nearly directly.
  • History:Canvas may have been painted in barter exchange for medical services.
  • Notes:Subject was the son of Dr. Martin Walton & Elizabeth Johnson. He lived from 1800-1872.