Art, literature & history
Portrait of a Gentleman
1830
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1983.31.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Hamilton Shegogue. Portrait of a Gentleman. James Hamilton Shegogue; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Hamilton_Shegogue,_Portrait_of_a_Gentleman,_1830,_NGA_62310.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Portrait of a Gentleman — James Hamilton Shegogue. 1830.
Medium: watercolor over graphite on paperboard.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1983.31.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.