Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons

A man with tousled brown hair and a pale complexion, wearing a dark coat over a white cravat, turns slightly toward the viewer against a plain grayish background. The small portrait is painted in fine, soft detail and set in an ornate gilded frame, in the manner of a miniature.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1820

Medium

watercolor on ivory

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2269 × 2880 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum