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This painting is a portrait of a man from the waist up. He is facing us, with pale skin, thin lips, rosy cheeks, light green eyes, and gray hair styled into curls around his ears. He has a neutral expression. The man is wearing a dark coat with gold buttons on the front, with a pale-yellow shirt underneath and a white cravat around his neck. The background is a dark and indistinct brown color.
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This painting is a portrait of a man from the waist up. He is facing us, with pale skin, thin lips, rosy cheeks, light green eyes, and gray hair styled into curls around his ears. He has a neutral expression. The man is wearing a dark coat with gold buttons on the front, with a pale-yellow shirt underneath and a white cravat around his neck. The background is a dark and indistinct brown color.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Abraham Kintzing

Thomas Sully

Date
1815
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.1 x 63.8 cm (29 15/16 x 25 1/8 in.) framed: 97.5 x 85.1 x 8.9 cm (38 3/8 x 33 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
1942.8.35
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • male
  • portrait
  • Realist
  • American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II [M-Z]
  • Kintzing, Abraham
Provenance

(James P. Labey, New York); purchased 21 October 1918 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.

NGA object ID 1129. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.