A middle-aged, light-skinned man stands facing and looking at us, leaning on one arm propped on a tall rock in a landscape in this vertical portrait painting. The man looks out with dark blue eyes under curved black brows. He has a prominent nose, his full apricot-colored lips are closed, and there is a shadow of a beard on his smooth cheeks. He has a receding hairline, and his wavy, ash-gray hair curls around his high, white collar. The man wears a tawny-brown topcoat with white, ruffled cuffs at his wrists, and a long brown vest with fabric-covered buttons. He wears matching brown,…
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John Beale Bordley

painter Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741 - 1827)

1770

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 200.8 x 147.4 cm (79 1/16 x 58 1/16 in.) ; framed: 215 x 161.6 x 7.6 cm (84 5/8 x 63 5/8 x 3 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of The Barra Foundation, Inc.
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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