Emily+Smiley+Snowden

Date: 1793
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1977/1977.104_1a.jpg&max=460 width="273" height="321"]] || Title: **Emily Smiley Snowden**

Artist: **Charles Peale Polk** Born: Maryland 1767 Died: Warsaw, Virginia 1822

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 35 5/8 x 30 7/8 in. (90.5 x 78.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Mr. Frederick E. Kline

Accession: 1977.104 || No documentation exists regarding Charles Peale Polk’s commission to paint Emily Smiley Snowden. But it is possible to guess at her social and economic position from the imported silk of her dress, her hand-painted fan, embroidered shawl, and Chippendale chair.
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