Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned, clean-shaven man sits looking at us in front of a peanut-brown background in this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders are angled to our left, but he turns his head to look at us with blue eyes under dark, arched brows. He has a bumped nose, fleshy, flushed cheeks, loose jowls, and a round chin. He has bags under his eyes, crow’s feet, and his thin pink lips are parted. Gray hair curls like bushes to each side of his balding head, which is white across the top of his pate and down the long, bushy sideburns. He wears a high-collared white shirt…
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John Adams

painter Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755 - 1828)

c. 1800/1815

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.7 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in.) ; framed: 97.5 x 84.5 x 10.8 cm (38 3/8 x 33 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Robert Homans
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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