Colonel William Fitch and His Sisters Sarah and Ann Fitch
1800/1801
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 257.8 x 340.4 cm (101 1/2 x 134 in.) framed: 283.9 x 365.8 x 11.1 cm (111 3/4 x 144 x 4 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Eleanor Lothrop, Gordon Abbott, and Katharine A. Batchelder
Accession Number
1960.4.1
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...