# Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, in John Singleton Copley

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

Our note:

> 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.

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## The work

- Date: 1771
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 49 1/2 x 40 in. (125.7 x 101.6 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.12
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[John Singleton Copley](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/john-singleton-copley), American, 1738–1815

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.

5 works in the collection.

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