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Tony Sigel as Nicholas Boylston

January 15, 2014
Index Magazine

Tony Sigel as Nicholas Boylston

John Singleton Copley, Nicholas Boylston, 1767, Harvard University Portrait Collection.

For this series, we at Index have taken a good, long look at ourselves and our colleagues at the museums and have matched staff members with artwork look-alikes in our collections. Taking advantage of a few props occasionally, the results have given us more than a few laughs and sometimes moments of awe.

Above: Tony Sigel, Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, meets John Singleton Copley’s 1767 portrait of Nicholas Boylston.

We invite you to browse our collections and share any doppelgängers of yourself on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #artlookalikes.

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