Description
Property of a Former U.S. Air Force Military Attache to the American Embassy, Cairo, Egypt
William Henry Brown (American, 1808-1883), Silhouette of John Randolph, Lithograph on Paper, depicting a full-length silhouette of John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, marked for the lithographers E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Frame size 20 3/4 in. x 16 3/4 in.
Brown traveled through New England and the Southern United States, working as a portrait painter and silhouettist. He created many portraits of distinguished citizens, and in 1846 published a book of lithographs titled 'Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans'.