Object Details
- Artist
- Beckers and Piard, active 1853 - 1856
- Alexander Beckers, active 1842 - 1869
- Victor Piard, active c. 1840 - c. 1870
- Sitter
- Matthew Calbraith Perry, 10 Apr 1794 - 4 Mar 1858
- Exhibition Label
- Born Newport, Rhode Island
- Rising through the ranks from midshipman to commodore, Matthew C. Perry laid the foundation for a professionally trained, technologically superior U. S. Navy that could hold its own throughout the world. In 1854, while on a mission for the United States government, Perry personally negotiated a historic treaty with Japan, establishing diplomatic and trade relations between that nation and the United States for the first time. His success in obtaining American access to a country that had effectively sealed itself off from foreign contact for several centuries was one of the most important diplomatic achievements of the nineteenth century.
- Matthew C. Perry 1794–1858
- Nacido en Newport, Rhode Island
- En su trayecto de ascenso desde las filas de cadetes hasta el rango de comodoro, Matthew C. Perry sentó las bases para una Marina estadounidense de formación profesional y superioridad tecnológica, a la par con las mejores del mundo. En 1854, en misión oficial del gobierno de Estados Unidos, Perry negoció personalmente un histórico tratado con Japón para establecer por primera vez relaciones diplomáticas y comerciales entre ambos países. Esa gestión de posibilitar el acceso de Estados Unidos a un país que durante siglos se había cerrado a todo contacto con el extranjero fue uno de los logros diplomáticos más importantes del siglo XIX.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- c. 1855
- Object number
- NPG.77.206
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Half-plate daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- Image: 11.6 × 9 cm (4 9/16 × 3 9/16")
- Case Open: 15.2 × 24.4 × 0.9 cm (6 × 9 5/8 × 3/8")
- Case Closed: 15.1 × 12 × 1.7 cm (5 15/16 × 4 3/4 × 11/16")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Interior
- Cased object
- Matthew Calbraith Perry: Male
- Matthew Calbraith Perry: Politics and Government\Diplomat
- Matthew Calbraith Perry: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Officer\Commodore
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.77.206
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4956dd314-f792-4a68-98e2-29e8839c6686
