Portrait of Richard Arkwright is a 1790 portrait painting by the Anglo-American artist Mather Brown. It depicts the English businessmen Richard Arkwright, a major figure in the Industrial Revolution.Evans p.92-93 Arkwright commissioned the painting for his London residence in Adam Street.Fitton p. 200
Brown settled in London and during his early career enjoyed great success with fashionable portraiture and history paintings for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.https://ink.nbmaa.org/people/198/mather-brown The painting is now in the Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut.https://ink.nbmaa.org/objects/536/sir-richard-arkwright
See also Portrait of Richard Arkwright, a contemporary painting by Joseph Wright of Derby
References
Bibliography Evans, Dorinda. Mather Brown, Early American Artist in England. Wesleyan University Press, 1982. Fitton, R.S. The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. Manchester University Press, 1989.