John Page (1744-1808)

John Page was the son of Mann Page II and Alice Grymes Page and the half-brother of Mann Page III and Elizabeth Page and Robert Page. He inherited Rosewell.

Dimensions: 48 x 38 in. (121.92 x 96.52 cm.)

The subject sits outdoors and leans against a grass-covered stone plinth. He wears a gold jacket and trousers and a white or silver waistcoat. A queue ribbon is behind his neck. His left hand rests on his knee. His right hand holds a rifle upright. On the ground lie two dead Virginia quails, a powder flask, and a hat with a feather.

See: Richard Channing Moore Page, Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia (1883), 20-21; Richard H. Saunders and Ellen G. Miles, American Colonial Portraits, 1770-1776 (1987), 179-180.