
Catalogue
- Year
- 1824
- Medium
- oil paint
- Artist
- Charles Bird King
Artist

Painting
Charles Bird King was an American painter of portraits and Native American subjects active in the early 19th century. Based in Washington, D.C., he produced oil paintings that documented tribal delegations visiting the nation's capital, creating a visual archive of indigenous peoples during a period of significant territorial displacement. His work combines formal portraiture conventions with ethnographic observation, rendering individual dignity within a historical moment of profound dispossession.
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- Charles Bird King
- Year
- 1824
- Medium
- oil paint
- Watts ID
- WW-1824-564645
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