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Portrait of a Young Man  1752

by John Wollaston the Younger

An established portrait painter in England, John Wollaston came to the American colonies to ply his trade in 1749. For the next three years, Wollaston worked in New York, executing numerous portraits for area sitters eager to acquire quality likenesses from a skilled, European-trained artist—a rarity in mid-18th-century America. Wollaston rendered his figures with convinci...
Size: 
133.4 × 107.6 cm (52 1/2 × 42 3/8 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago