He had a well-shaped, active figure, symmetrical except for the unusual length of the arms, indicating uncommon strength.

His light brown hair was drawn back from a broad forehead, and grayish-blue eyes looked happily, and perhaps a trifle soberly, on the pleasant Virginia world about him.

The face was open and manly, with a square, massive jaw, and a general expression of calmness and strength.

"Fair and florid," big and strong, he was, take him for all in all, as fine a specimen of his race as could be found in the English colonies.
Let us look a little closer through the keen eyes of one who studied many faces to good purpose.

The great painter of portraits, Gilbert Stuart, tells us of Washington that he never saw in any man such large eye-sockets, or such a breadth of nose and forehead between the eyes, and that he read there the evidences of the strongest passions possible to human nature.