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File:Brooklyn Museum - Portrait of John Adams - Samuel Finley Breese Morse - overall.jpg

Summary

Artist
Title Portrait of John Adams
Date circa 1816
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 75.5 × 63.4 cm (29.7 × 25 in)
American Art collection
Accession number 32.144
Credit line gift of Harriet H. White
Notes Unsigned
Source/Photographer Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.144_transp1094.jpg
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