Artist Thomas LeClear, born on this day in 1818, painted this charming picture of a picture.
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Artist Thomas LeClear, born on this day in 1818, painted this charming picture of a picture.
To learn more about this intriguing painting, join Director Elizabeth Broun in a virtual tour of Interior with Portraits.
This painting is also featured in our Treasures To Go traveling exhibition Young America:Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, currently on view at the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina.
Source: National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM). (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996).
Pictured: Thomas LeClear (1818–1882), Interior with Portraits,about 1865, oil, 25 7/8 x 40 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Pauline Edwards Bequest.