Moses Gill, ca. 1759, Made in United States, Oil and gold leaf on copper, 1 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. ( × cm), Paintings, John

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Moses Gill, ca. 1759, Made in United States, Oil and gold leaf on copper, 1 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. ( × cm), Paintings, John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London), The affluent Boston hardware merchant Moses Gill (1733–1800) commissioned this exquisite miniature from colonial America's finest painter as a wedding gift for his wife, Sarah Prince, in about 1759. It is one of only six miniatures John Singleton Copley is known to have painted in oil on copper

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