Smithsonian American Art Museum
Peter Boylston Adams?
John Singleton Copley, born Boston, MA 1738-died 1815 London, England · ca. 1765-1770
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.
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