Charles Loring Elliott
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Object Details
- Artist
- Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896
- Sitter
- Charles Loring Elliott, 12 Oct 1812 - 25 Aug 1868
- Exhibition Label
- Regarded by his contemporaries as one of the nation’s finest portraitists, Charles Loring Elliott painted more than seven hundred portraits representing many of mid-nineteenth-century America’s most prominent businessmen, political leaders, and cultural figures. Elliott “spoke enthusiastically of the Daguerreian art” and strove to match the clarity and detail of photographic images in his paintings. Not surprisingly, he often employed daguerreotypes—including those from the studio of his friend Mathew Brady—as the sources for his portraits.
- A self-portrait that Elliott painted around 1850 bears a close resemblance to this Brady daguerreotype, which may have served as a study for that work.
- En opinión de sus contemporáneos, Charles Loring Elliott fue uno de los mejores pintores retratistas del país. Pintó más de setecientos retratos en los que representó a muchos de los empresarios, políticos y figuras culturales más prominentes de Estados Unidos a mediados del siglo XIX. Elliott “hablaba con entusiasmo del arte del daguerrotipo” y en sus pinturas procuraba igualar la nitidez y los detalles de las imágenes fotográficas. No es de sorprender que a menudo usara daguerrotipos como fuente para sus obras, incluidos los del estudio de su amigo Mathew Brady. Un autorretrato pintado por Elliott hacia 1850 guarda una gran semejanza con este daguerrotipo de Brady, que quizás sirviera de base para la pintura.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; conservation made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund
- c. 1850
- Object number
- NPG.89.55
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Half-plate daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- Image/Sight: 10.8 × 7.6 cm (4 1/4 × 3")
- Mat (brass): 13.3 × 10.2 cm (5 1/4 × 4")
- Case open: 15.2 × 24.6 × 1.5 cm (6 × 9 11/16 × 9/16")
- Case closed: 15.2 × 12.3 × 1.8 cm (6 × 4 13/16 × 11/16")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Interior
- Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie
- Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache
- Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard
- Cased object
- Charles Loring Elliott: Male
- Charles Loring Elliott: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter
- Charles Loring Elliott: Visual Arts\Artist\Portraitist
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.89.55
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ee358d04-cae6-4ee5-aa04-7758ccc10495
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