John Singleton Copley

Midshipman Augustus Brine



John Singleton Copley - Midshipman Augustus Brine



John Singleton Copley
Midshipman Augustus Brine
1782
127 x 101.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated at left center: J.S. Copley Pin[xit] / 1782
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Richard De Wolfe Brixey, 1943


Provenance

The subject's son, the Rev. Augustus James Brine (who assumed the name and arms of Knapton in 1860), Boldre House, Lymington, Hampshire, England, died 1879
his son, Augustus L. Knapton, Rope Hill, Lymington
Mrs. Knapton, Stanwell House, Lymington, until 1924
Lord Duveen of Milbank, London
sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 12 December 1924, nr. 111
with Frank T. Sabin, London, 1924
with Duveen Brothers, London, 1924
Richard De Wolfe Brixey, by 1930–1943
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 43.86.4

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