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James B. Clay

1817 - 1864

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Shown from the chest up, a light-skinned man sits angled to our right and looking off in that direction against a golden brown background in this vertical portrait painting. The man has a high forehead under a receding hairline of gray-brushed light brown hair. His right eyebrow, to our left, is slightly cocked over hazel-brown eyes. His short nose is pointed and his pink lips closed over a set jaw. Snow-white folds of his cravat tuck into his high-collared ink-black coat. The rounded lower edge of the portrait fades against the background.
Thomas Sully, John Quincy Adams, 1824, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.30

John Quincy Adams

Thomas Sully · 1824 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.30