Jane Browne
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 75.6 x 62.6 cm (29 3/4 x 24 5/8 in.) framed: 89.2 x 76.5 x 5.1 cm (35 1/8 x 30 1/8 x 2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Accession Number
1942.8.2
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...