John F. Gray
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 (attributed)
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- Plate: 9.5 × 5.9 × 0.2 cm (3 3/4 × 2 5/16 × 1/16")
- Holding institution
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Image provider
- smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Subject Matter
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Individual Portrait Both · 99%
The image presents one clearly identified sitter in a formal portrait, and the catalog lists John F. Gray and Portrait as subjects.
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Face Visual · 98%
The sitter’s face is prominently visible and centrally positioned within the vertical composition.
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Human Figure Both · 99%
A single seated male figure is clearly visible; the catalog identifies the sitter as John F. Gray: Male.
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Interiors Both · 91%
The furnished arrangement includes a substantial upholstered chair, while the catalog explicitly lists Interior.
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Medical/Health Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies John F. Gray as a physician and associates the subject with Medicine and Health.
Visual Qualities
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Black and White Visual · 99%
The supplied image is rendered entirely in grayscale, with tonal modeling across the sitter, clothing, chair, and backdrop.
Medium and Techniques
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Photography Both · 99%
The object is visibly photographic, and the catalog classifies it as a Photographic Negative and as Photographs.
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Traditional Photographic Techniques Metadata · 99%
The catalog records the medium as glass plate collodion negative, a nineteenth-century traditional photographic process.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 96%
The catalog dates the work circa 1860–70, placing it within nineteenth-century art.
Materials
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Glass as Material Metadata · 97%
The cataloged medium is a glass plate collodion negative, supporting the material classification of glass as part of the original photographic object.
Furniture and Lighting
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Chair Both · 99%
An upholstered chair with fringe and a turned wooden leg is clearly visible at the left of the sitter, and the catalog specifies seating and chair.
Source & rights
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894. John F. Gray. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection.