108 1/2 x 62 in. (275.6 x 157.5 cm)
Framed: 128 1/2 x 82 1/4 x 5 in. (326.4 x 208.9 x 12.7 cm)
Accession Number
2006.171.000
Credit Line
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Object Details
Painted in 1880, this portrait of former Member and Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall is a copy by Richard Brooke after the portrait by William D. Washington in Virginia's Fauquier County Courthouse. The portrait shows Marshall in his judicial robes and seated on a raised dais. It is a pose reminiscent of 17th- and 18th-century European court portraiture. Official papers and an inkwell rest at his elbow, while a scattering of legal volumes tumble down the carpeted stair.
