Thomas Stone

Thomas Stone

James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 (after)

Details

Dimensions
Image: 9.8cm x 8.2cm (3 7/8" x 3 1/4"); Sheet: 26.3cm x 15.3cm (10 3/8" x 6")
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Art Genome Taxonomy

7 tags

Subject Matter

  • Individual Portrait Both · 99%

    The image presents one identified sitter in an upper-body portrait format, and the museum title and subject metadata identify him as Thomas Stone.

  • Political Figures Metadata · 98%

    Museum subject metadata identifies Thomas Stone as a statesman, congressman, government official, and Maryland state senator.

Medium and Techniques

  • Drawing Metadata · 100%

    The work is cataloged as a Drawing, with the medium specified as ink wash on illustration board.

  • Copies and Emulations Metadata · 97%

    The museum record identifies James Barton Longacre as the artist and specifies that the work is copied after Robert Edge Pine.

  • Hatching Visual · 95%

    Fine, repeated diagonal strokes are visible throughout the background and in the modeled areas of the coat and face, consistent with hatching in a drawing.

  • Chiaroscuro Both · 88%

    The pale face and neckcloth are sharply differentiated from the dark coat and surrounding tonal field, while the catalog identifies ink wash as the medium.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the work to circa 1827, placing it in the nineteenth century.

Source & rights

James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869. Thomas Stone. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.