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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H26
People
Unidentified Artist
Copy after John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Samuel Cooper (1725 - 1783)
John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Samuel Cooper (1725-1783), after John Singleton Copley
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1849?
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304848

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.8 x 63.2 cm (30 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.)
framed: 98.4 x 86.4 x 12.7 cm (38 3/4 x 34 x 5 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Thomas Curtis Clarke to Harvard College, 1849

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Thomas Curtis Clarke to Harvard College, 1849
Object Number
H26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 13
  • Frank William Bayley, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, The Garden Press, W. B. Libby (Boston, MA, 1910), p. 106
  • Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 74
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 45
  • Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), p. 27

Verification Level

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