Jeremiah Lee

John Singleton Copley

ca. 1769 · Watercolor on ivory · The American Wing

The sitter (1721-1775) commissioned this piece at the same time that Copley was painting full-length oil portraits of him and his wife, Martha Swett, for their home in Marblehead, Massachusetts (Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford). Another version of the miniature is owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Artist

John Singleton Copley

Date

ca. 1769

Medium

Watercolor on ivory

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939