Portrait #742

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Howard, Thomas Gibson
  • Artist:Wright, Thomas Jefferson
  • Date Created:1831-1833
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:17 x 15
  • Image Dimensions:10 x 8
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  • Materials/Media:oil on paper (on photograph?)
  • Date Documented:12/6/2005
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Three-quarters left profile of a man with short curly brown hair dressed in formal attire (tie, white shirt and vest with black overcoat. A brown strap falls over his left shoulder and is likely his gun strap. The background suggests a landscape of brown rolling hills. His right hand is partially visible at the bottom of the frame. The overall look is a very formal hunting outfit.
  • Notes:Subject lived from 1807-1835. Reference: Kentucky Antebellum Portraiture by Edna Talbott Whitley, 1956.