Portrait of Sir William Johnson
Sir William Johnson by John Wollaston, Albany Institute of History and Art.
Johnson sat for this portrait in New York City in 1750. John Wollaston, the artist, had been a pupil of a well known English painter whose expertise
was silks and expensive drapery. Johnson supposedly criticized the portrait, saying that his OWN shoulders were broad and square. This work is in the Albany Institute of History of Art.
Source: Flexner, James Thomas. Mohawk Baronet: A Biography of Sir William Johnson
Syracuse University Press, 1979, 1979.
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