Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1802
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Colonel Boyd is a 1802 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a British Army officer in period attire. He's dressed in formal clothes, with a serious expression. The artist used a lot of detail to make the uniform look realistic, which is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what military fashion was like back then. You can look up the work of artist Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de, to see more portraits like this.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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