Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Man

William Beechey

Date

c. 1800

Medium

oil on canvas

Culture

England, early 19th Century

Department

Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The subject’s elongated, slightly softened facial features and vaguely detached air are typical of William Beechey’s elegant portraits of male subjects. The jacket worn by the sitter is probably a naval uniform. Beechey enjoyed a very successful painting career in London. In 1793 he was appointed portrait painter to Queen Charlotte and was knighted in 1798.

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