Portrait of John Hancock by Charles Hancock, oil on canvas . John Hancock is depicted dressed in black standing full-length next to a table draped with a green cloth. There is a dark red curtain in the background on the right. His left hand rests on a paper on the table, which also holds two inkwells with a pen and a beige book. He holds a pen in his right hand down by his side. The painting is in an ornate, rectangular gilt frame. A metal plaque on the frame immediately beneath the painting reads ‘JOHN HANCOCK. BORN 1788. DIED MCH 1835.’ This was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819.