National Society of Colonial Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #316
Subject/Title: Unknown Gentleman W24
Artist:Field, Robert 1770-1819
Date Created:1800
Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art
Nashville, TN
Frame Dimensions:NA
Image Dimensions:3 1/4" x 2 5/8"
Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
Date Documented:2/22/2004
Condition:Excellent
Description:Frame is new gold plated on copper.

Oval of a white-haired man with light green eyes in a dark red (velvet?) coat with white shirt. Signature is very faint : ""R F / 1800."
History:Painted in Washington DC or Baltimore area.

Exhibted at Cheekwood 1992/Huntsville 1996/Gibbes 2000.

Illus. Huntsville catalog.
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