Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1802
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
John Beale Bordley is a 1802 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This portrait shows a man in a formal pose. He's dressed in upper-class clothes from the early 1800s. The artist used a lot of detail to show the man's face and clothes. The portrait is interesting because it was made using a special printing process. This process allowed the artist to create many copies of the portrait. The man in the portrait, John Beale Bordley, was likely an important person. You can learn more about this style of portrait by looking at the work of artist: Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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