# Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

**John Singleton Copley** (American, 1738–1815)  
1771  
Oil on canvas  
49 1/2 x 40 in. (125.7 x 101.6 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.12. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10522).

## About this work

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, a boy of about nine from a prominent New York family, poses with his pet squirrel on a fine chain beside him. Copley painted the portrait during a long visit to New York in 1771, and the squirrel recalls his own celebrated Boy with a Flying Squirrel, which had won him admiration when it was shown in London. The boy’s direct gaze and the leafy setting show the painter at the height of his American career, just a few years before he left for Europe in 1774.

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John Singleton Copley painted this in 1771, aged 33. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [John Singleton Copley](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/john-singleton-copley)

American, 1738–1815; born in Boston, Massachusetts; died in London

Copley was largely self-taught and became colonial America’s finest portraitist, painting Boston merchants and their families with sharp, tactile realism, from glinting silver to polished mahogany. In 1774, on the eve of the Revolution, he left for Europe and settled in London, where he turned to large modern history paintings such as Watson and the Shark and The Death of Major Peirson. He never returned to America.

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## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: American
- The artist was 33
- Real size: about 49 × 40 in (126 × 102 cm). The original is larger than our largest print, 20 × 30 in, so every print is a reduction.
- Century: 18th century
- Subjects: Boys, Portraits, Squirrels
- Colour: black
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5

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