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Copley, John Singleton,
Portrait male -- Tyng, Eleazer
Portrait male -- Tyng, Eleazer
Occupation -- Law
Occupation -- Law
Occupation -- Military
Painting
Eleazer Tyng, (painting).
Artist:
Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815, painter.
Title:
Eleazer Tyng, (painting).
Dates:
1772.
Digital Reference:
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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