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    Eleazer Tyng, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815, painter.
    Title: 
    Eleazer Tyng, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1772.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    49 3/4 x 40 1/8 in. (126.5 x 100.2 cm)
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) John Singleton Copley/pinx 1772. Boston.- signed
    Description: 
    Three-quarter-length seated portrait of Eleazer Tyng (1690-1782).
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Tyng, Eleazer -- Knee length
    Portrait male -- Tyng, Eleazer -- Elderly
    Occupation -- Law -- Justice of the Peace
    Occupation -- Law -- Magistrate
    Occupation -- Military -- Colonel
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1965.6.1 (1944)
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection Amory, Copley (1841-1879),
    Amory, Copley (1866-1960), Washington, District of Columbia
    Amory, Mary Forbes Russell, Washington, Distrcit of Columbia 1929.
    Amory, Copley, Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts 1944.
    Amory, Walter, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts
    Gift of Avalon Foundation,
    References: 
    Miles, Ellen G., "American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995.
    National Gallery of Art, 1988, 1990.
    "American paintings and sculpture: an illustrated catalogue," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1970.
    Prown, Jules David. "John Singleton Copley," Cambridge, MA: Published for the National Gallery of Art, Washington [by] Harvard University Press, 1966.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Miles, Ellen G., "American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995, pg. 37.
    "American paintings and sculpture: an illustrated catalogue," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1970, pg. 47.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 08600420
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