Portrait of Elizabeth Copley (Mrs. Gardiner Greene), John Singleton Copley

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John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Elizabeth Copley (Mrs. Gardiner Greene)
John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Elizabeth Copley (Mrs. Gardiner Greene)
John Singleton Copley
Portrait of Elizabeth Copley (Mrs. Gardiner Greene)
1800–1803
John Singleton Copley, artist
1738–1815
Portrait of Elizabeth Copley (Mrs. Gardiner Greene), 1800–1803
Where object was made: England, United Kingdom
Material/technique: oil; canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 77.2 x 64 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 30 3/8 x 25 3/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 35 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 2 7/8 in
Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. Crosby Kemper Jr.
Accession number: 1982.0338
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Exhibition Label: "This Land," Oct-2014, Kate Meyer Copley is celebrated as the finest native-born painter from America’s colonial era. His career began in Boston and continued in England. Copley’s daughter Elizabeth was born in Boston and traveled with her mother and siblings to London to join her father when she was an infant. Copley paints Elizabeth at age 30, just before she returned to Boston to live with her new husband, Mr. Gardiner Greene. Archive Label 2003: Regarded as the finest American painter in the eighteenth century, Copley was a successful Boston portraitist before emigrating to England in 1774. This painting occupies a unique place within his oeuvre as it depicts his favorite daughter at the age of 30, just before she left the family home in London to marry Mr. Gardiner Greene, a wealthy Boston merchant. Not intended for sale, the portrait retains the freshness and spontaneity of an intimate oil sketch.