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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.128
People
John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Benjamin West (1738-1820)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1776-1780
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230324

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.3 x 63.5 cm (30 1/16 x 25 in.)
framed: 91.8 x 79.1 x 7 cm (36 1/8 x 31 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
A. Meeker, Chicago, IL; Scott & Fowles, New York; Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 1939; their sale to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1942; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.128
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore Bolton and Henry Lorin Binsse, "John Singleton Copley", The Antiquarian (New York, NY, December 1930), pp. 116-118., p. 118
  • Portraits of Twelve American Artists by Themselves and Their Friends, exh. cat., Knoedler Galleries (New York, NY, 1942), cover, cat. 1
  • Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1966), vol. 2, pp. 274, 434, pl. 382
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 238
  • Robert Plate, John Singleton Copley: America's First Great Artist, David McKay (New York, NY, 1969), ill. opp. p. 90
  • Kimberly Orcutt, Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2004), p. 12
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 27, 147, 148, cat. 92, ill., cover
  • Prof. Jane Kamensky, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, W.W. Norton & Company (New York, 2016), pp. 274-276; repr. as fig.8-5 and pl.12 on p.275

Exhibition History

  • Portraits of Twelve American Artists by Themselves and their Friends, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 03/01/1942 - 03/31/1942; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 04/01/1942 - 04/15/1942; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 05/01/1942 - 06/01/1942
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/08/2004 - 08/29/2004

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