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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Copley, John Singleton,     History -- Great Britain     Portrait male -- Chatham, Earl Of     Portrait male -- Pitt, William     State of Being -- Death     Figure group     Occupation -- Political     Architecture interior -- Civic     Study     Painting

The Death of the Earl of Chatham, (painting). Artist:  Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815, painter. Title:  The Death of the Earl of Chatham, (painting). Dates:  1779. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  20 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (52.7 x 64.2 cm) Inscription:  (Lower right, in dark brown paint:) JSCopley/1779 signed Description:  Scene at the House of Lords in England depicting William Pitt (1708-1778), the first Earl of Chatham, collapsing into the arms of a group of figures. Subject:  History -- Great Britain Portrait male -- Chatham, Earl Of Portrait male -- Pitt, William State of Being -- Death Figure group Occupation -- Political Architecture interior -- Civic -- House of Lords Study Object Type:  Painting Owner:  National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1947.15.1 (907) Provenance:  Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England (possibly) May 23, 1865, no. 130. Henry Graves & Co., London, England Formerly in the collection of Dexter, Franklin Gordon, Mrs. (Susan Greene Amory), Boston, Massachusetts Dexter, Gordon, Boston, Massachusetts Gift of Dexter, Gordon, Mrs. (Isabella Hunnewell), Boston, Massachusetts 1947. 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:  Miles, Ellen G., "American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995, pg. 73. "American paintings and sculpture: an illustrated catalogue," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1970, pg. 45. 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 08600415   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 08600415 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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