Portrait #348

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Unknown Gentleman W84
  • Artist:Mack, Ebenezer active 1785-1808
  • Date Created:ca. 1800
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:2" x 1 1/2"
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:2/22/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Frame is period Chased cold on copper with window in back for hair. This is a period frame, but it is later than the miniature and is not the original case. Oval of a man in a dark jacket with 3 brass buttons visible. His white shirt has 5 visible embroidered roses on its front. His large eyes are blue and his hair is light sandy auburn.
  • History:Painted NYC. Exhbited Gibbes 2000. Illus. Sotheby's catalog Jan 16, 1996.