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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

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Artist Unknown
CultureAmerican
Dateearly 19th century
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 29 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. (75.6 x 62.9 cm)
Overall, Frame: 36 1/4 x 31 1/4 in. (92.1 x 79.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2726
Not on view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting. Portrait of a man in a white shirt with a high collar and black jacket holding spectacles on an open book.

Published ReferencesReproduced in (and attributed in error as being by Cephas Thompson) in 300 YEARS OF AMERICAN ART, Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1976.
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Charles Willson Peale
1787
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
John Brewster
1800
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar
ca. 1800
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Robert Reid
ca. 1910-11
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
John Tolman
ca. 1815
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2011.
Robert Henri
1906
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2014.
Ammi Phillips
1852
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2016.
William Garl Browne Jr.
1888
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Cephas Thompson
ca. 1812
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Erastus Salisbury Field
ca. 1830
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2021.
John Kane
ca. 1928-1929
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Charles Willson Peale
1787