A middle-aged, light-skinned man stands facing and looking at us, leaning on one arm propped on a tall rock in a landscape in this vertical portrait painting. The man looks out with dark blue eyes under curved black brows.

John Beale Bordley

Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827)

Date: 1770
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 79 × 58 in (200.8 × 147.4 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1984.2.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of The Barra Foundation, Inc.

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 2.1 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
5 × 7 in	trims 2.7 %	5 × 6¾ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	3992 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 2.1 %	11¾ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1703 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 2.1 %	17½ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	1135 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 2.1 %	29½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	681 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 2.1 %	35¼ × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	567 dpi, crisp up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 410 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 617 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,463 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 20,446 × 27,949 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.