This article is about the painting. For the event, see Death of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.
The Death of the Earl of Chatham
Artist
John Singleton Copley
Year
1781
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
228.5 cm × 307.5 cm (90.0 in × 121.1 in)
Location
National Portrait Gallery (by courtesy of the Tate), London
The Death of the Earl of Chatham is the title of a 1781 oil-on-canvas painting by Boston-born American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the collapse of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham on 7 April 1778, during a debate in the House of Lords on the American War of Independence. Chatham is surrounded by peers of the realm, and the painting contains fifty-five portraits.[1]
Copley's painting also serves as a visual record of the appearance of the Armada tapestries, which were destroyed in the 1834 Burning of Parliament.
^Paul Staiti, ‘Copley, John Singleton (1738–1815)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 1 Sept 2011.
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