Portrait of a Man
1789
John I Smart
John I Smart (British, 1741–1811)
European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of a Man, 1789. John I Smart (British, 1741–1811). Watercolor on ivory in a gold and seed pearl frame; framed: 7.1 x 5.5 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 6.2 x 4.5 cm (2 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1943.651 This miniature is housed in its original gold frame set with real half pearls.
- Maker/Artist
- Smart, John I
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor on ivory in a gold and seed pearl frame
- Dimensions
- Framed: 7.1 x 5.5 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 6.2 x 4.5 cm (2 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed left: J S / 1789 / I [The initial I indicates a miniature painted in India, where Smart worked between 1785 and 1795.]
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1943.651
- Credit Line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
- Exhibitions
- John Smart - Miniaturist, Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America, Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives, <em>International Exhibition of Miniatures</em>, Albertina, Vienna, (1924).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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