Portrait #1752

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Smith, Charles Gillette (self-portrait)
  • Artist:Smith, Charles Gillette
  • Date Created:ca. 1840
  • Owner/Location:Columbia Athenaeum 808 Athenaeum Street Columbia, TN 38401
  • Frame Dimensions:36 x 32
  • Image Dimensions:32 x 28
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on wood panel
  • Date Documented:5 September 2008
  • Condition:Poor
  • Description:Half-length seated portrait of a gentleman wearing a black suit coat with white shirt and black neck stock. Subject has short brown hair parted on the side with long sideburns. Red chair back seen in rear right. Background consists of red curtain pulled back to reveal an mountain and sky scene at rear left.
  • Notes:Sitter was a Nashville physician and a board member of the Athenaeum School for Girls.