A pale-skinned man wearing a military uniform is shown from the waist up in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our left with his arms by his sides, and he looks in that direction with brown eyes under curving brows. He has a straight, pointed nose, slightly pursed pink lips, and a double chin. His white hair is brushed back from a high forehead and tied at the back of his neck. His dark blue jacket has a shiny gold epaulet decorated with two silver stars on the shoulder we can see. The jacket has wide, butter-yellow trim around the neck and down the front over a frilly,…
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General William Smallwood

painter Robert Edge Pine (American, 1730 - 1788)

1785/1788

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.8 x 61.1 cm (29 1/16 x 24 1/16 in.) ; framed: 93 x 80.7 x 10.2 cm (36 5/8 x 31 3/4 x 4 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
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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