Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:

ID_Number: 
WBD_00621
Creator name: 
Copley, John Singleton
Creator dates: 
1738-1815
Creator nationality: 
American
Title: 
Head of a Negro
View description: 
full view with partial frame
Date: 
1777 or 1778
Date type: 
creation date
Repository name: 
Detroit Institute of Arts
Repository name variant: 
Detroit Institute of Art
Repository location: 
Detroit, Michigan
Repository_inventory_ number: 
52.118
Style_Period: 
18th century
Style_Period name variant: 
Eighteenth century
Style_Period: 
Realist (modern European fine arts styles)
Subject: 
single-sitter portraits
Subject: 
men (male humans)
Subject: 
naturalism
Subject: 
brushwork
Subject: 
warm colors
Subject: 
highlights
Subject: 
history paintings
Culture: 
American
Category: 
Paintings
Work_type: 
oil paintings (visual works)
Material_Technique: 
oil on canvas
Measurement: 
framed: 68.6 × 60.3 × 6.4 cm
Measurement: 
unframed: 53.3 × 41.3 cm
Copy_Source: 
digital image
Image_Source: 
Denny disk
Rights Reproduction & Access: 
Walter Denny
Filename: 
WBD_00621.tif