First, click on this image. And check out the dude's face... or rather one particular part of it. I passed this painting today in the Luce Center and stopped in my tracks, full-out double-take. Anyone up on the history of hairy growths?Oh, btw:
Jonathan Dwight
Attributed to Joseph Steward, 1753–1822
American, ca. 1790
Oil on canvas
29 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.
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Ugh, I have the heebie jeebies. I didn't think old portraits were into fidelity... I wonder if the painter and the sitter had a feud.
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