Study for "The Death of the Earl of Chatham"
Medium
graphite and white chalk on discolored blue paper
Dimensions
sheet: 30.7 × 49.5 cm (12 1/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund and Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1980.4.2
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...