Two women reach for or touch the arm of a man wearing a uniform and standing next to a chestnut-brown horse in front of a deep landscape in this horizontal painting. All three people have pale skin with oval faces, rosy cheeks, long, straight noses, cleft chins, and their mouths are closed. The horse and man fill most of the right half of the composition. The horse’s back is as high as the man’s shoulder, and it stands with its rear angled to our right and its front legs behind the man. It turns its head to look off to our right, its black mane and tail flaring like blazes. The man rests his…
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Colonel William Fitch and His Sisters Sarah and Ann Fitch

painter John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 - 1815)

1800/1801

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 257.8 x 340.4 cm (101 1/2 x 134 in.) ; framed: 283.9 x 365.8 x 11.1 cm (111 3/4 x 144 x 4 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Eleanor Lothrop, Gordon Abbott, and Katharine A. Batchelder
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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