Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Figure Reaching; Sprawling Figures; Cheering Group; Dying Sailors
John Singleton Copley
1785–86
Medium
Black chalk and white-chalk heightening on light blue laid paper
Dimensions
14 5/8 x 23 in. (37.1 x 58.4 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.44.15
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...