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Matthew Harris Jouett — Senator Thomas Hart Benton

Matthew Harris Jouett

Senator Thomas Hart Benton

1820

Notable as one of Kentucky's finest early portraits, this work depicts the influential senator and namesake of the future president with Jouett's characteristic attention to both physical likeness and social status.

Medium
oil on wood

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Matthew Harris Jouett, Senator Thomas Hart Benton, 1820

Notable as one of Kentucky's finest early portraits, this work depicts the influential senator and namesake of the future president with Jouett's characteristic attention to both physical likeness and social status.

Medium
oil on wood
Year
1820
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Brown, Political, 19th Century, American, Oil On Wood, Portrait, American History, Neoclassical, Figurative, Formal

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