# William Wilson, in Miniatures of the 19th century

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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