Museum Collections
Luce Center
William Sidney Mount (1807-1868)
Title
William Sidney Mount (1807-1868)
Date
1851
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 25 1/4 x 20 in. ( 64.1 x 50.8 cm )
frame: 33 3/4 x 28 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 85.7 x 71.4 x 5.7 cm )
Credit Line
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number
1901.8
Gallery Label
Charles Loring Elliott exhibited a portrait of Mount at the National Academy of Design in 1850. Elliott's original portrait of Mount, on which Carpenter's work is based, is now in the Academy's collection.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.





