A Gentleman
1776/1780
Medium
graphite and white chalk on gray-washed laid paper, squared with graphite
Dimensions
support: 48.4 × 32.4 cm (19 1/16 × 12 3/4 in.) sheet: 42.2 × 27.3 cm (16 5/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund and Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1980.4.3
About the Artist
John Singleton Copley · 1738–1815
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) was the greatest American painter of the colonial era and one of the finest portraitists in the English-speaking world. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was largely self-taught, learning from mezzotint reproductions of European paintings and from his stepfather Peter Pelham, an engraver. By his early twenties, Copley had established himself as Boston's leading po...