Portrait of Richard Arkwright (Brown)

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. Arkwright commissioned the painting for his London residence in Adam Street.
Brown settled in London and during his early career enjoyed great success with fashionable portraiture and history paintings for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. The painting is now in the Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut.