William Axtell — John Wollaston

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Artist: John Wollaston
Date: 1746
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection: The American Wing
Culture: American
Credit line: Gift of Clarence Dillon, 1976

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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.

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