Contact Us
Please contact us if you have updated information about portraits included in this database or if you have information about a portrait that you believe should be added to this database.
Boy of the Fitzhugh family
Artist: Unknown
Date: probably 1710-1740
The portrait descended in the Fitzhugh-Custis-Bolling-Lee family. According to the family, the subject was called “Lord Ravensworth.” Ravensworth plantation was a Fitzhugh family plantation. It is unclear which member of the Fitzhugh (or related) family this portrait represents. Based on the wig and costume, it was likely painted in the early to mid-eighteenth century.
Dimensions: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
The subject is a boy or young man wearing a blue jacket with trim and a white waistcoat. He wears a wig. His left elbow is resting on a plinth. He is inside a painted oval frame.
See: FARL
Family: Fitzhugh
Location: Unknown
Attributes: white wigwhite waistcoatshirt rufflesstone plinthchildboyblue jacketthree-quarterpainted oval frame
Credits: Private collection. Photograph by Ira W. Martin, courtesy of the Frick Art Reference Library.