Shown from the knees up, and older, clean-shaven, pale-skinned man rests one elbow on a broken column in this vertical portrait painting. He rests on his right elbow, on our left, so his body creates a diagonal from the lower right to the top center of the composition. He looks at us with clear blue eyes under low brows. His fleshy cheeks are lightly flushed. Wrinkles line his mouth, which is closed in a slight smile. He has jowls and a double chin, and his face is marked with few flesh-colored bumps near his mouth and under one eye. Thick, white hair is brushed back from his forehead, and…
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Epes Sargent

painter John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 - 1815)

c. 1760

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 126.6 x 101.7 cm (49 13/16 x 40 1/16 in.) ; framed: 144.8 x 118.1 cm (57 x 46 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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