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Oval miniature portrait of a heavyset man with gray powdered hair, wearing a red coat and yellow waistcoat against a dark background, in a metal pendant frame.

Portrait Miniature of Moses Gill in a Red Coat

An oval portrait miniature shows a heavyset man with gray powdered hair, a ruddy complexion and a faint smile, wearing a red coat with gold buttons over a yellow waistcoat and white cravat. He faces the viewer against a dark background. The oil painting is set in a metal pendant frame with a loop at the top.

Artist
John Singleton Copley
Date
ca. 1759
Medium
Oil and gold leaf on copper
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2882 × 3842 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1764).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Martha J. Fleischman Gift, in memory of her father, Lawrence A. Fleischman, 2006

Stories of the Old Testament18th centuryoil on copperoval portraitmen's portraitred coatpendantportrait miniaturecopleydark background

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