Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1804
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
William Augustine Washington III is a 1804 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows the upper half of a man. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The artist paid attention to details like the folds in his shirt. The man in the painting is William Augustine Washington III. He was likely an important person to have his portrait made. You can learn more about the technique used to create this portrait by looking up engraving.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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