Portrait #373

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Johnson, William
  • Artist:Sharples, James
  • Date Created:ca. 1799
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:2.75 x 2.25
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Oval full left profile of a young man with long silver hair (wig?) pulled back in a pony tail. He is wearing a blue coat, and a white shirt, stock, and vest.
  • History:here is a full-sized version of this portrait by Sharples owned by the Ohio Society of the Colonial Dames of America (currently at the Cincinati Museum) Exhibited at Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000 Illus. Huntsville catalog; American Art Review March 1996; the magazine Antiques January 1994, second page in Levy advertisement. Subject was a well-respected attorney.here is a full-sized version of this portrait by Sharples owned by the Ohio Society of the Colonial Dames of America (currently at the Cincinati Museum) Exhibited at Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000 Illus. Huntsville catalog; American Art Review March 1996; the magazine Antiques January 1994, second page in Levy advertisement. Subject was a well-respected attorney.