Carte de visite portrait identified in period pencil on the reverse as Frederic Edwin Church, published by E. Anthony, New York, from a photographic negative by M. B. Brady. The albumen print shows Church standing in three-quarter pose wearing a dark coat and bow tie, dating to the early 1860s.

Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) was a leading painter of the Hudson River School and one of the most celebrated American landscape artists of the nineteenth century.

Mount imprint reads “Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, from photographic negative by M. B. Brady.” Reverse with manuscript identification reading “Church.”