John Neagle

John Neagle

Daniel Dickinson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The subject is the Philadelphia portraitist John Neagle (1796-1865). Dickinson exhibited this miniature at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1830. The attribution to J. R. Smith is erroneous; Garrett C. Neagle was the subject's son.


The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.