Year: 19th Century
Size: 62" x 51"
Medium: Oil
Description: Fine Huge early 19th Century American portrait of poet and Physician Samuel Henry Dickson holding a book, oil on canvas. Stunning large scale three quarter length portrait of the gentleman in his study holding an indistinctly titled book. Magnificent detail and scale commissioned to a leading portrait painter from the period similar to Thomas Lawrence and Sir William Beechey. Old label verso stating the sitter as the Author of Fallacies of the Fancy. Stunning original antique gilt frame with some loose brittle areas. Measurements: 62" x 51" framed