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A print of "Portrait of Mr. Frank Duveneck/The Smoker" by William Merritt Chase, etched by William Unger, copyrighted 1879. This image depicts a man in a large hat seated sideways on a chair whilst smoking a long pipe. This image comes from the personal collection of Christian Klackner, a gallerist and prolific printer of the 1800s and early 1900s. Klackner worked with many Long Island based artists like William Merritt Chase and Thomas Moran to print and sell copies of their artwork.