Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Group of Dying French Officers
John Singleton Copley
1782–83
Medium
Black chalk on light blue laid paper
Dimensions
14 3/16 x 23 in. (36 x 58.4 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1960
Accession Number
60.44.14 recto
Tags
Men
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...