Ebenezer Storer
John Singleton Copley
ca. 1767–69
Medium
Pastel on laid paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Thomas J. Watson, 1940
Accession Number
40.161.1b
Tags
MenPortraits
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...