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Portrait of a Gentleman

Nathaniel Rogers, born Bridgehampton, NY 1788-died Bridgehampton, NY 1844

This miniature is typical of Rogers’s early work, employing the oval format he would later abandon in favor of rectangular works destined for display in small hinged cases or frames. The sitter is shown in the costume of a nineteenth-century “dandy,” with a high, pointed collar and elegant velvet lapels.

Date

ca. 1825

Type

Painting-Miniature

Medium

watercolor on ivory

Department

SAAM

Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Object number

saam_1953.10.1

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund