# Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers, in John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley painted this in about 1763, aged about 22. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers sits in a landscape in a gleaming satin gown, with a small dog in her lap. Copley, who never saw a major European painting until he left America in 1774, based the composition on a print after a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, adapting fashionable London imagery for his colonial sitters.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1763
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 49 7/8 x 39 3/4 in. (126.7 x 101 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15.128
- 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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