Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.048 |
Title |
John Caldwell Calhoun |
Artist |
King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862 |
Date |
1818 |
Description |
John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850), who summered in Newport, served as Senator of South Carolina (1811-1817), Secretary of War under President Monroe in 1817, Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, and Secretary of State (1844-1845). Portrait. Adult seated male subject, knee-length view, facing left three-quarter turn, eyes facing forward. Subject's right hand rests on an atlas opened to a map showing Council Bluff, Iowa to Chariton, all of which are labeled on the map; his left hand lifts the side of the map. The subject has brown hair and eyes and wears a black coat with brass buttons, black pants, a white shirt, vest and tie. The bright red of an upholstered chair is visible behind the left shoulder of the subject. The background is brown. |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-91.4 W-69.8 cm |
Credit line |
Gift of the Artist |
Provenance |
1859 - Gift of Charles Bird King |
Additional Inscriptions and Marks |
on back, left vertical stretcher in red chalk: Old #93 on back, in pencil: Washington, 1818. Stamp in middle: Klimann May 1979 [incomplete transcription]. |
Inscription Type |
Inscription |
Inscription Technique |
Pencil |
Inscription Location |
On Stretcher |
Inscriptions and Marks |
John C. Calhoun Sect. Of War by his friend C. B. King Washington 1818 |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862 Calhoun, John Caldwell, 1782-1850 |
Notes |
Formerly #50 (#93 on 1859 list). |
Related Publications |
1996 (spring) First Seminole War to be published by Stackpole Books ; Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler |