Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 547

Provenance

John James Dixwell (1806-1876), Boston, the sitter's great-great-grandson
his daughter, Caroline Dixwell Clements (Mrs. George Henry Clements, 1856-1931), New York
her daughter, Anna Clements Knauth (Mrs. Oswald Whitman Knauth, 1890-1965), New York
her son, Arnold Whitman Knauth II (born 1918), Rockport, Massachusetts
with Milch Galleries, New York, 1958
with Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1958-1959
purchased 1959 by NGA with funds from the Avalon Foundation

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1959.4.1

Other works by John Singleton Copley

Mrs. Metcalf Bowler
c. 1763

Portrait of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

The Death of the Earl of Chatham
1779

Richard Codman
1793

Mrs. Sylvanus Bourne
1766