Moses Gill
ca. 1759
Medium
Oil and gold leaf on copper
Dimensions
1 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (4.1 × 2.9 cm)
Classification
Painting, miniature
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Martha J. Fleischman Gift, in memory of her father, Lawrence A. Fleischman, 2006
Accession Number
2006.1
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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...