Adam Babcock
John Singleton Copley
c. 1774
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 117 x 91.7 cm (46 1/16 x 36 1/8 in.) framed: 132.4 x 107 cm (52 1/8 x 42 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Henry A. and Caroline C. Murray
Accession Number
1978.79.1
Rights
Public Domain
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...