Unidentified Gentleman

Artist Joshua Johnson (American, ca. 1763 - ca. 1824)

Dateabout 1815

DimensionsFrame: 25 3/4 × 21 3/4 × 2 in. (65.4 × 55.2 × 5.1 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineMr. and Mrs. Robert J. Barber Art Fund

Object number

2023.336

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 29

Published ReferencesDriskell, David C., Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, San Francisco, 1985, pp. 16, 18, repr. (figs.) 3,4.

Weekley, Carolyn J. and Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, Baltimore, 1987, pp. 129-130, repr. (figs.) 33-34.

Exhibition HistoryThe Bronx, New York, The Bronx Museum; Los Angeles, Afro-American Museum; Hartford, Connecticut, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, 14 January - 31 August, 1986.

Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland Historical Society; Williamsburg, Virginia, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Art Center; New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Stamford, Connecticut, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Branch; Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, 26 September 1987 - 9 November 1988.