Portrait #317

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Wittney, John
  • Artist:Field, Robert 1770-1819
  • Date Created:ca. 1805-1808
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:3 1/4" x 2 5/8"
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:2/22/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Frame is plain gold on copper; back completely filled with glass (replaced by Wiebold) with original silvered, patterned copper and tinned foil. Oval of an older heavy-set man with pink cheeks, wearing a blue jacket and tan vest.
  • History:Painted in Boston. Has the number 57 painted into a tiny oval at lower right--this is original. Paper inside that appears to be contemporary with the miniature has written on it in ink ""John Wittney/Boston/With love to/my wife, Mary." Exhibited Gibbes 2000.