John Singleton CopleyÉtats-Unis, 1738–1815Peut-on la contempler ?
Washington, États-Unis
Le propriétaire est connu. Si elle est exposée aujourd’hui, le musée ne le dit pas, et l’on ne nous a pas appris à deviner.
Mr. Hooper was the son of Robert King Hooper, who owned a fishing fleet that worked out of Marblehead, Massachusetts. The younger man already sports the rotund physique that Copley had captured in a portrait of Hooper's father years earlier. Behind him, the sea, visible through an open window, recalls the source of his family’s riches. Robert had graduated from Harvard in 1763, and Copley's painting shows him settling into the comfortable life of a merchant prince.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
1753–1774 · Lieu de travail
Boston
16 novembre 1769
Married: Susannah Farnum Clarke
1770
Daughter born: Elizabeth Copley
21 mai 1772
Son born: John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
1773
Daughter born: Mary Copley
1774–1815 · Lieu de travail
London