A clean-shaven, pale-skinned man with gray, powdered hair stands in the middle of a grassy landscape in this vertical portrait painting. He has smooth skin with hazel eyes under thick brows, a long nose, and his full, pale pink lips are closed. He stands facing us with his ankles crossed and his head turned slightly to look off to our right. A knee-length, ginger-brown jacket has a row of gold-colored buttons, the size of checkers pieces, down the front and lacy cuffs at the end of a row of three more buttons on each sleeve. One button is fastened across his chest over a white cravat and…
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John Musters

Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723 - 1792)

1777-c. 1780

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 238.5 x 147.3 cm (93 7/8 x 58 in.) ; framed: 267.7 x 175.6 cm (105 3/8 x 69 1/8 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Given in memory of Governor Alvan T. Fuller by The Fuller Foundation, Inc.
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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