Drapery Study for "Mary and Elizabeth Royall"
c. 1758
Medium
graphite and white chalk on gray-brown laid paper
Dimensions
overall (approximate): 25.2 x 38.1 cm (9 15/16 x 15 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
1980.4.1
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...