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Man in a Green Coat

Man in a Green Coat






Date : approx. between 1779 and 1785

Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness (1950)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Painting
American Wing
Second Floor - Section 218
Item 12 on 18
American Art
Painting

Area related
London (England)

Description   

This portrait seems to have be painted as a rectangle and then changed to an oval format. It is one of Stuart's most virtuosic paintings, clearly from his first years in London. It seems to be inspired by Thomas Gainsborough, whose paintings the young American certainly saw and admired in England.
Man in a Green Coat
Gilbert Stuart