About Face: Copley’s Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith was an interactive installation in the Gallery for a special exhibition. It explored the lives and work of two artists within colonial Boston prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution: portrait painter John Singleton Copley and silversmith Nathaniel Hurd and coincided with the display of the unfinished oil painting of Nathaniel Hurd that is part of the MAG’s permanent collection with the finished version that was on loan from the Cleveland Museum of Art for this exhibition.

The installation was live at the MAG ~1999.