Henry Peters Gray (Henry Colton Shumway)

Henry Peters Gray
Artist: Henry Colton Shumway (1807–1884)
Date: 1842
Medium: Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: 2 1/32 x 1 19/32 in. (5.2 x 4 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Bequest of Florence de Noyon Gray, 1947

The sitter (1819-1877) was a portraitist and history painter. He sat for Shumway in 1842, the year Gray became an academician at the National Academy of Design.