Robert FekeAmerican, 1705–1750Thomas Hopkinson
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Sep 25, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
Thomas Hopkinson wears a full-bottomed wig and a sword, and he stands before a balustrade and a grove of pruned cypresses. But these European props do not tell the whole story. Hopkinson was also an ambitious citizen of a new society interested in new discoveries. He studied law in England but carved out a career for himself in Philadelphia, where he attained the rank of judge and, when he was not in court, helped Benjamin Franklin in his experiments with electricity.
Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1926.6.2
What it shows
Sources
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 5 days ago
- Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
