# Peter Boylston Adams?

- By: John Singleton Copley (born Boston, MA 1738-died 1815 London, England)
- Date: ca. 1765-1770
- Medium: oil on copper
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: image (oval): 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. (7.8 x 6.2 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=38334)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/969d4daef5f70d15a60c01c900ff6f75.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This miniature is thought to show Peter Boylston Adams, who was born in Norfolk, Massachusetts, in 1738. Peter was the brother of the second president of the United States, John Adams, and a captain in the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Crosby in 1768, and this miniature may have been painted to commemorate their wedding.