# John Browne

- By: Joseph Blackburn (British, c. 1730–1787)
- Date: c. 1760
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 123 x 99 cm (48 7/16 x 39 in.)
- Culture: United States
- Credit line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.1019)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1919.1019/1919.1019_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In his portrait by Joseph Blackburn, Boston civic administrator John Browne is seated with legs crossed at the knees, his right hand partially inserted in his waistcoat, and his left hand pressed against his hip. Blackburn used this stock pose in other portraits he made of men, including one of Browne's brother-in-law.