Detail View: The AMICA Library: Hugh Hall
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.1996.279
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Copley, John Singleton
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1738-1815
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Creator Name-CRT:
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John Singleton Copley
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Title:
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Hugh Hall
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1758
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Creation Start Date:
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1758
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Creation End Date:
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1758
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Materials and Techniques:
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Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas
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Classification Term:
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Work on Paper: Pastel
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Dimensions:
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15 1/2 x 13 in. (39.4 x 33 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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1996.279
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Credit Line:
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Purchase, Estate of George Strichman and Sandra Strichman Gifts; Bequest of Vera Ruth Miller, in memory of her father, Henry Miller,Bequest of Josephine N. Hopper, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, and Gifts of Yvonne Moën Cumerford, Berry B. Tracy, and Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank, by exchange; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Milberg Gift, and funds from various donors, 1996
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Rights:
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Context:
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The subject of this powerful study is Hugh Hall, a distiller, son of the governor of Barbados, and a Boston merchant of great affluence. The portrait reveals the young Copley's earliest attempt to master the difficult medium of pastel crayons. This is not an effortless performance. The picture bears the scars of his struggle to bend an obdurate medium to his will, but what the picture lacks in elegance it more than makes up in forcefulness. This portrait of Hugh Hall is probably Copley's first pastel. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ap1996.279.R.tif
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