John Caldwell Calhoun portrait by Charles Bird King

Half-length portrait of a man with brown hair and sideburns, turned three-quarters to the left against a warm olive background. He wears a dark double-breasted coat with gilt buttons, a high dark collar and a white cravat, and sits beside a red upholstered chair. Oil on canvas in an early nineteenth-century portrait manner.

Artist

Charles Bird King

Date

c. 1822

Medium

Oil on canvas

Source

Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)

Size

3380 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery