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
Rights
Public Domain
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...