H667: John Codman (1782-1847)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H667

People

John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
John Codman (1782 - 1847)

Title

John Codman (1782-1847)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1807-1808

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305029

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)
framed: 113 x 93.3 x 17.8 cm (44 1/2 x 36 3/4 x 7 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: back of stretcher, paper: TO BE ATTACHED TO BACK OF FRAME
  Title: Reverend John Codman (script)
  Name of Owner: John Codman (script)
  Residence: 501 Beacon Street (script)
  Name of Artist: J. Singleton Copley (script)
  Value: $900 (script)
• label: back of stretcher, paper: Museum of Fine Arts
  Artist: Copley
  Subject: Rev. Dr. John Codman
  Owner: Mrs. John Codman
  Date of Loan: May 23rd, 1895
  No.: 2173

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

By descent to the sitter's son, Robert Codman, 1847; to his son, Bishop Robert Codman; to his wife, Mrs. Robert Codman; her gift to her niece, Catherine Codman (Mrs. Eugene C.) Eppinger; her gift to Harvard College, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Eugene C. Eppinger, 1981

Object Number

H667

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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), p. 45
• 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. 33, 80
• Theodore Bolton and Henry Lorin Binsse, "John Singleton Copley", The Antiquarian (New York, NY, December 1930), pp. 116-118., p. 116
• John Singleton Copley, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1938), p. 21
• Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1966), vol. 2, pp. 377, 414, pl. 660
• 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. 161-162, cat. 102, ill.

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1808, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1808 - 12/31/1808
• John Singleton Copley 1737-1815, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/01/1938 - 03/15/1938

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