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William Vaughan

British, 1752 - 1850

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Shown from the chest up, an older man with pale, peachy skin, wearing a high-collared black coat and a cream-white, ruffled collar, is shown against a deep wine-red background in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our right and he turns his face to look at us with gray eyes under pale gray eyebrows. He has a hooked nose and jowls along his chin line. His cheeks are flushed and his lips are set in a line. His white hair flares out along the sides of his head and is tied at the nape of his neck with a ribbon loosely painted and outlined with black. His ink-black coat has silvery gray highlights along the high collar and his right shoulder, to our left. The background is painted with light brushstrokes, deepening from scarlet red around his face to black at the upper corners.
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (Vaughan portrait), 1795, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.27

George Washington (Vaughan portrait)

Gilbert Stuart · 1795 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.27

Bibliography

1839

  • Vaughan, William. Memoir of William Vaughan, Esq. F.R.S.. London, 1839: 5-9

  • Vaughan, William. Memoir of William Vaughan, Esq. F.R.S: with miscellaneous pieces relative to docks, commerce, etc.. London, 1839.