Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
Depicted
Patrick Henry
(American, 1736 – 1799)
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
n.d.
Oil on canvas
Overall: 28 3/4 × 24 3/4 in. (73 × 62.9 cm)
Gift of Mrs. E. H. Harriman
1930.4
This portrait, which was long in the possession of Philip Aylett and his wife, Elizabeth (Henry) Aylett, the daughter of the subject, is known as the "Aylett Portrait." It represents Patrick Henry at a younger age than any of the other known portraits of him, and, according to a tradition traceable to George Morgan, one of Henry's biographers, was not executed from life.
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