Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 554

Provenance

The artist
his son, John Singleton Copley, Jr., Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863), London
his sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 5 March 1864, nr. 86
bought by "Clarke" for Martha Babcock Greene Amory (Mrs. Charles Amory, 1812-1880), the artist's granddaughter, and her husband, Charles Amory (1808-1898), Boston
purchased 1872 by their daughter, Susan Greene Amory Dexter (1840-1924) and son-in-law, Franklin Gordon Dexter (1824-1903), Boston
their son, Gordon Dexter (1864-1937), Boston
his widow, Isabella Hunnewell Dexter (c.1871-1968)
gift 1942 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1942.4.2

Other works by John Singleton Copley

Eleazer Tyng
1772

Mrs. Jeremiah Lee (Martha Swett)
1769

Baron Graham
1804

Mrs. Metcalf Bowler
c. 1763

Portrait of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth