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Portrait of a Merchant ( Ebenezer Stoker)

(American, 1769–1819)
1801
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor with graphite on board
DimensionsSheet: 25.1 x 20.3 cm (9 7/8 x 8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number56.723
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsInscribed center right on cliff in watercolor: R F / 1801
ProvenanceCollection of Ida French Jones, Germantown, Pa., direct descendant of the sitter; Erskine Hewitt Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 18-22, 1938, no. 1080. Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 11, 1956
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