Collections Online
John Hancock
Image 1 of 1
To order an image, navigate to the full
display and click "request this image"
on the blue toolbar.
-
Choose an alternate description of this item written for these projects:
- Object of the Month
- Witness to America's Past
- MHS Collecting History
- Object of History, 2013 Exhibit
- Revolutionary-era Art and Artifacts
- Main description
[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]
John Singleton Copley was Boston's preeminent portrait painter in the 18th century. He painted this portrait of John Hancock after the 1768 seizure of one of Hancock's ships, the Liberty, which transformed the wealthy Boston merchant into a patriotic victim of English oppression.