Moses Gill

John Singleton Copley

ca. 1759 · Oil and gold leaf on copper · The American Wing

Moses Gill (1733-1800), a Boston hardware merchant (later governor of Massachusetts), probably commissioned this portrait of himself as a wedding gift for his wife, Sarah Prince. In 1764, Gill went to Copley again for oil portraits of himself and Sarah (both Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence).

Artist

John Singleton Copley

Date

ca. 1759

Medium

Oil and gold leaf on copper

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Martha J. Fleischman Gift, in memory of her father, Lawrence A. Fleischman, 2006