National Gallery of Art Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W Washington District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1953.5.50 (1266)
Date:
Ca. 1831
Notes:
Chotner, Deborah, "American Naive Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992.
National Gallery of Art, 1988, 1990.
"American paintings and sculpture: an illustrated catalogue," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1970.
Little, Nina Fletcher, "Asabel Powers; painter of Vermont faces [catalog of an exhibition] Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 14-December 2, 1973," Williamburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1973, p. 30.
Summary:
Waist-length seated portrait, possibly of William Sheldon. He holds a painter's palette. Books are on a shelf at left.
