Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie
| Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie | |
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| Artist | John Singleton Copley |
| Year | 1780 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 226.3 cm × 148.9 cm (89.1 in × 58.6 in) |
| Location | Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the American artist John Singleton Copley, from 1780.[1] It depicts British military officer Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, who commissioned the work from Copley.[2] It shows his participation in the Anglo-Cherokee War two decades earlier, with the backdrop making reference to his service during the conflict as an officer in the British Army.[3]
The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1780, the first to be held at Somerset House, in London.[4] Today the painting is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery, in Edinburgh, having been acquired in 1949.[5]
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- Kamensky, Jane. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
- Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley: In England, 1774-1815. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966.
- Tobin, Beth Fowkes. Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-century British Painting. Duke University Press, 1999.