Portrait #181

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Price, Chandler
  • Artist:Birch, William Russell 1755-1834
  • Date Created:ca. 1810
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:1 7/8 x 1 9/16
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:2/22/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Middle-aged man in burgundy coat with white shirt, tie, and vest and white hair covering his ears in three-quarter right profile. His eyebrows are brown. Rectangle with clipped corners. Frame Gilt copper originally to be worn as a bracelet, now fitted as a pin.
  • History:Appears to be a copy of a portrait painted by James Peale. Exhibited at Cheekwood 1992 / Cheekwood 1995 / Huntsville 1996 / Charleston, 2000 Illustrated in Huntsville Catalog / American Art Review 1996