# William Wilson, in George Catlin

George Catlin painted this in about 1826, aged 30. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

From the museum's label:

> William Wilson (1762-1844) was born in Scotland and, after moving to New York, married Agnes Ann Kerr of Edenton, North Carolina, in 1786.

_Text from the Smithsonian American Art Museum._

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1826
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Dimensions: sight 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (5.4 x 4.4 cm) oval
- Type: Painting-Miniature
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1980.126.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[George Catlin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/george-catlin), born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Catlin gave up the law to paint, first as a portraitist in Philadelphia, and from 1830 made a series of journeys west from St Louis to record the peoples of the Plains.

3 works in the collection.

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