Shown from the chest up, an older man with pale, peachy skin, wearing a high-collared black coat and a cream-white, ruffled collar, is shown against a deep wine-red background in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our right and he turns his face to look at us with gray eyes under pale gray eyebrows. He has a hooked nose and jowls along his chin line. His cheeks are flushed and his lips are set in a line. His white hair flares out along the sides of his head and is tied at the nape of his neck with a ribbon loosely painted and outlined with black. His ink-black coat has…
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George Washington (Vaughan portrait)

painter Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755 - 1828)

1795

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73 x 60.5 cm (28 3/4 x 23 13/16 in.) ; framed: 100.3 x 87.3 cm (39 1/2 x 34 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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