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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1917.67
People
John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Monmouth before James II
Other Titles
Former Title: Monmouth Before James II, Refusing to Reveal his Accomplices
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1795
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232251

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
171.3 x 227.8 cm (67 7/16 x 89 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent to the artist's son, Lord Lyndhurst; sold at his estate sale to Waters, March 5, 1864; E.C. Hodgkins; his sale to Edward D. Bettens, March 15, 1917; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum through Louise E. Bettens Fund, 1917.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
1917.67
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Augustus Thorndyke Perkins, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, J. R. Osgood & Company (Boston, MA, 1873), pp. 128, 132
  • Frank William Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins, The Taylor Press (Boston, MA, 1915), pp. 34, 178
  • Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1927), p. 58, ill.
  • Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 74
  • John Singleton Copley, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1965), p. 122
  • Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1966), vol. 2, pp. 350, 402, 444, pl. 604
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), n.p., mentioned in entries for cat. 11 and 12
  • William L. Pressly, "The Challenge of New Horizons", John Singleton Copley in England, ed. Emily Ballew Neff, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX, 1995), pp. 45-46, fig. 24
  • Ige Verslype, "'You will be glad to know in what manner an Historical composition is made': A Study of the Preparatory Stages of John Singleton Copley's (1738-1815) History Paintings", Student Papers from the 30th Conference of the Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, 2004), pp. 1-4, fig. 1
  • Kimberly Orcutt, Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2004), pp. 2, 8, 12, ill. p. 9
  • 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. 157-159, cat. 100, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
  • Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/08/2004 - 08/29/2004
  • Long-term loan of Copley to Boston Public Library, Boston Public Library, Boston, 09/27/2007 - 11/19/2013

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