Elizabeth Gray Otis (Mrs. Samuel Alleyne Otis)
John Singleton Copley
c. 1764
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 78.7 x 69.2 cm (31 x 27 1/4 in.) framed: 92.7 x 83.8 x 7.6 cm (36 1/2 x 33 x 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Honorable and Mrs. Robert H. Thayer
Accession Number
1980.11.1
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...