Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1802
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Benjamin Smith Barton is a 1802 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a man in a formal coat and cravat, with a neutral expression. He's set against a grayscale oval background. The man is Benjamin Smith Barton, and what's interesting is that he was painted in a style that was common for the time, with lots of details in his clothing and face, which suggests the artist was skilled at this type of work. To learn more about this style of portrait, look up the technique: engraving.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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