Harrison Gray
John Singleton Copley
c. 1767
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 77.5 x 64 cm (30 1/2 x 25 3/16 in.) framed: 78.1 x 90.8 x 10.2 cm (30 3/4 x 35 3/4 x 4 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
1976.25.1
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...