Description
McLenan was originally a meat-packer in Cincinnati. He practiced drawing for his own amusement, but later adopted it as a career, emerging as a prolific illustrator.
Provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore; in herited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
Inscriptions
[Inscribed on mount] lower right: J. McLenan