William Axtell

John Wollaston, 1746

MEDIUMOil on canvas

DIMENSIONS50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)

LOCATIONThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

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John Wollaston

John Wollaston was an English painter who brought the fashionable Rococo portrait styles of London to British North America in the mid-18th century.