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Leonard Wood

Artist: John Singer Sargent, 12 Jan 1856 - 15 Apr 1925
Sitter: Leonard Wood, 9 Oct 1860 - 7 Aug 1927

Date: 1903

Type: Painting

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76.5 x 63.8cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/8"); Frame: 91.4 x 78.7 x 6.4cm (36 x 31 x 2 1/2")

Topic: Symbols & Motifs\Medal; Costume\Dress Accessory\Epaulet; Leonard Wood: Male; Leonard Wood: Politics and Government\Governor; Leonard Wood: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\World War I army officer; Leonard Wood: Medicine and Health\Physician\Army\Surgeon; Leonard Wood: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Major General; Portrait

Place: United States\District of Columbia\Washington

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Object number: NPG.96.50

Provenance: (Sotheby’s New York, May 22, 1996, lot 30); purchased NPG

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery

Exhibition: 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions
On View: NPG, West Gallery 240

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