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Thomas Hopkinson
Robert Feke (born Oyster Bay, NY ca. 1707-died ca. 1751)
1746
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- overall: 49 3/4 x 39 5/8 in. (126.5 x 100.5 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, George Buchanan Coale Collection
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Thomas Hopkinson wears a full-bottomed wig and a sword, and he stands before a balustrade and a grove of pruned cypresses. But these European props do not tell the whole story. Hopkinson was also an ambitious citizen of a new society interested in new discoveries. He studied law in England but carved out a career for himself in Philadelphia, where he attained the rank of judge and, when he was not in court, helped Benjamin Franklin in his experiments with electricity.Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
