# Mrs. John Winthrop, in John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley painted this in 1773, aged 35. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Hannah Winthrop, wife of the Harvard scientist John Winthrop, sits at a polished mahogany table holding a branch of nectarines, and the tabletop reflects her hands and the fruit like a mirror.

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## The work

- Date: 1773
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (90.2 x 73 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 31.109
- 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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