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
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...