Portrait of a Boy, Probably of the Crossfield Family
Artist: William Williams (American, 1727–1791)
Original Dimensions: 52 1/4" x 35 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1770–75) "William Williams was born in England, the son of a mariner. He lived through shipwreck and adventure in the Caribbean before arriving in Philadelphia at the age of twenty, by which time he was already earning a livelihood as a painter. He returned to England in 1776, and died there fifteen years later in an almshouse. Tradition holds that the solemn young man represented in this portrait is a member of the Crossfield family. He holds the equipment for the game of battledore and shuttlecock, a decorous eighteenth-century version of badminton. In this picture, one of Williams's best, the rendering of the rocks, the verdure, and the distant view reminds us that the artist was also a painter of theatrical scenery." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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