Description
Wilson Cary Nicholas, who served as governor of Virginia (1814-1816), as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1807-1809), and as a U.S. senator (1799-1804), is the subject of this portrait by William Ludwell Sheppard, which is a copy of one made by Gilbert Stuart in 1805. The painting is part of the Commonwealth of Virginias art collection.
