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Great portrait painters throughout history have used various techniques to capture the appearance and personality of their subjects. Some, such as Anthony Van Dyck or John Singer Sargent, employed rich, bold colors freely brushed in expressive strokes. Others opted for a more restrained approach, in which brushwork was less obvious, line was more important in describing contours, and colors were more muted. Copley’s somber yet grand portrait of Boston merchant Thomas Amory II is of the latter type, and it beautifully demonstrates how much can be conveyed through so little overt display of artifice. . . .
- Franklin Kelly, Curator of American and British Paintings Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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