LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas, laid down on board

Measurements:

49.53 in. (125.80 cm.) (height) by 39.72 in. (100.90 cm.) (width)

Condition:

unframed

Exhibited:

Portland, ME, L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Museum, January-May 1935. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, January-June 1936. Brunswick, ME, Walker Gallery, Bowdoin College, January-May 1937. Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Painter and the New World, 9 June-30 July 1967, no. 122, as by John Singleton Copley of Sir Brook Watson. Omaha, NE, Joslyn Art Museum, The Growing Spectrum of American Art, 20 September-9 November 1975, no. 19, as by John Singleton Copley of Sir Brook Watson.

Literature:

F.W. Bayley, The life and works of John Singleton Copley, founded on the work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins, Boston, 1915, p. 254, as a portrait of Sir Brooke Watson said to be by John Singleton Copley, and erroneously stating that the portrait had belonged to Mr. Pulitzer of New York. Boston Sunday Post, 24 February 1935, illustrated. Boston Sunday Post, 19 January 1936, illustrated. Boston Sunday Post, 2 February 1936. Milwaukee Art Institute, Bulletin of the Milwaukee Art Institute 12, no. 7, March 1938, illustrated on the cover. Atlanta Art Association High Museum of Art, Museum News 1, no. 1, March 1941. D.E.W. Gibb, Lloyd's of London: A Study of Individualism, London, 1957, illustrated, as by John Singleton Copley of Sir Brook Watson. E. Spaeth, American Art Museums and Galleries, New York, 1960, 108-9, illustrated, as by John Singleton Copley of Sir Brook Watson. The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art, Waukesha, WI, 1972, p. 22, illustrated, as by John Singleton Copley of Sir Brook Watson.

Provenance:

Grosvenor Blaine Clarkson (1882-1937), New York. with The Norton Galleries, New York, by 1933, where acquired by the following with Robert C. Vose Galleries, Boston, in 1933, where (possibly) acquired by Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), Kennebunkport, ME, by 1935. with Robert C. Vose Galleries, Boston, by 1944, where acquired by The John Herron Art Institute, later the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in 1944.