A young gentleman with blue eyes wearing a black coat
Attributed to Ira Chafee Goodell (1800-circa 1875)
Probably New York State or Massachusetts, circa 1820
Oil on poplar panel, 27 x 23 inches, with original reeded and black-painted frame

Stylistically, this work draws comparison to several portraits executed in the 1820s illustrated in Ruth Piwonka, Painted by Ira C. Goodell, A Catalogue and Checklist of Portraits done in Columbia County and Elsewhere, 1800-ca. 1875 (Kinderhook, NY, 1979), Figs. 1-9