John Singleton CopleyVereinigte Staaten, 1738–1815Peter Boylston Adams?
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- Unverändert seit
- 25. Sept. 2026
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- Sammlungsdaten des Museums selbst
About the painting
This miniature is thought to show Peter Boylston Adams, who was born in Norfolk, Massachusetts, in 1738. Peter was the brother of the second president of the United States, John Adams, and a captain in the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Crosby in 1768, and this miniature may have been painted to commemorate their wedding.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Angaben
- Inventarnummer
- 1999.27.7
What it shows
Quellen
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · abgerufen vor 5 Tagen
- Bild: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
Derweil im Leben von John Singleton Copley
Das ganze Leben1753–1774 · Wirkungsort
Boston
1766
“A Boy with a Flying Squirrel” at the London exhibition
The exhibition of 1766 establishes Copley’s fame in England. Joshua Reynolds speaks warmly of the picture, saying that with a proper artistic education Copley could become a master of world stature.
4 August 1766
West urges Copley to study in Europe
By one account, on receiving the picture without the painter’s name West exclaimed that its colouring was worthy of Titian, and he got it into the exhibition; on 4 August he writes to Copley of Reynolds’s interest and advises a visit to Europe of three or four years. In October and November Copley gladly agrees to send more pictures but laments that no portrait worthy of the name of a picture has been brought to Boston within his memory.
3 September 1766
Elected to the Society of Artists of Great Britain
By vote of 3 September 1766, “A Boy with a Flying Squirrel” makes the young Boston painter a Fellow of the Society of Artists of Great Britain.
17 June 1768
Explains to West why he is not yet coming to Europe
Copley writes that he would go only with a very good prospect of doing as well there as at home: his present income of 300 guineas a year is a fair living in America, and his mother and young brother depend on him. West replies on 20 September that he has talked over Copley’s prospects with London artists, who agree that he has nothing to hazard.
16. November 1769
Married: Susannah Farnum Clarke
