Portrait of a Man, probably Sir George Downing, by Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith's oil portrait of a man probably identified as Sir George Downing, c. 1675 to 1690, in the Harvard Art Museums.

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Artist, sitter attribution, date, holding, accession number and rights.

Wikimedia Commons: Portrait of a Man, probably Sir George Downing
Thomas Smith (c. 1650 to 1691); between c. 1675 and c. 1690; oil on canvas; Harvard Art Museums H527; 847 by 1024 pixels; Public Domain Mark.

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The sitter is only probably Downing, as the museum title and the essay caption both say.
The Harvard Art Museums record itself was not opened.

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Creator: Thomas Smith
Created: c. 1675
Medium: painting
Held by: harvard-art-museums
Rights: public domainProbably Sir George Downing, by Thomas Smith, c. 1675 to 1690. Harvard Art Museums; public domain.
Reuse notes: Commons marks the file with the Public Domain Mark as a faithful reproduction of a two-dimensional work by a painter who died in 1691. Reuse of PD-Art reproductions may be restricted in some jurisdictions.
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Used beside the essay's account of George Downing.

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Generated by claude-code/claude-opus-5-5 on 2026-10-08