Ralph Earl (1751-1801) – Elijah Boardman, 1789 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) part 2 American painters

The picture has something of this: people, portrait, wear, man, indoors, woman, library, model, shelf, education, room, furniture, outfit, chair, school, fashion, book bindings.
Perhaps it’s a painting of a man standing in front of a desk with a pair of scissors in one hand.