Art, literature & history
Study for "The Death of the Earl of Chatham"
1779
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite and white chalk on discolored blue paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 30.7 × 49.5 cm (12 1/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1980.4.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Singleton Copley. Study for "The Death of the Earl of Chatham". John Singleton Copley; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Singleton_Copley,_Study_for_%22The_Death_of_the_Earl_of_Chatham%22,_1779,_NGA_57509.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Study for "The Death of the Earl of Chatham" — John Singleton Copley. 1779.
Medium: graphite and white chalk on discolored blue paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 30.7 × 49.5 cm (12 1/16 × 19 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1980.4.2. John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund and Avalon Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.