Brandon Brame Fortune

Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture

National Portrait Gallery

Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C. 20560-0973

fortuneb@npg.si.edu

Research Interests

Theory and practice of American and British portraiture, 1750-1820; American portraitists 1880-1900; American art at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893; portraiture and science, 20th century portrait sculpture; contemporary portraiture.

Current Research Projects

18th-century portraits of men of science; 18th and 19th century portraits created or disseminated as gifts; contemporary portraiture

Recent Publications

with Deborah J. Warner, Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America (Washington, D. C. : National Portrait Gallery in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).