Portrait of General Giles, by Joseph Wright, ca. 1785
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Portrait of General Giles

Joseph Wright (born Bordentown, NJ 1756-died Philadelphia, PA 1793)

ca. 1785

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
29 5/8 x 25 1/8 in. (75.2 x 63.9 cm)
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. David C. Acheson and John W. Castles III
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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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