Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned man with rosy cheeks looks at us in front of a window opening in this vertical portrait painting. The man’s body is angled to our left, but he turns his head to look at us with blue eyes under smooth brows. His chestnut-brown hair is brushed off his high forehead, which slopes down to a wide nose, notably flushed cheeks, and closed pink lips. A white cravat is knotted at his throat, and his left hand, to our right, rests on his hip so it pulls back the dark brown coat he wears. The coat has flaring sleeves and silver embroidery. Translucent ivory-white…
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Portrait of a Gentleman

painter Joseph Blackburn (British, active 1752/1777)

c. 1760

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 127.2 × 101.9 cm (50 1/16 × 40 1/8 in.) ; framed: 144.8 × 120 × 10.2 cm (57 × 47 1/4 × 4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1966)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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