TitlePortrait of Unidentified Man
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 21 × 19 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1366-P
Label TextThis painting has traditionally been identified as the diploma portrait of J. Appleton Brown by Henry O. Walker. Correspondence from Walker in the Academy archives, however, establishes that Brown's portrait was painted and accepted by the Academy in 1897, when the sitter would have been 53 years old. As the subject depicted here is clearly younger than that age, it must be assumed that 1366-P was misidentified at some point in the past.