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Mrs. Clark Gayton, (painting). Artist:  Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815, painter. Title:  Mrs. Clark Gayton, (painting). Other Titles:  Mrs. James Pigott, (painting). Dates:  1779. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm) Inscription:  (Center right:) J. S. Copley. fec. 1779 signed Description:  Three-quarter-length portrait of Mrs. Clark Gayton (ca. 1748-1809) seated in a red armchair. She rests her left elbow at a table and touches her finger to her face. She holds a pen in her right hand and a stack of folios is at her side. A flower sits on the table; the sky is seen out the window at right. Subject:  Portrait female -- Gayton, Clark, Mrs. -- Knee length Portrait female -- Pigott, James, Mrs. -- Knee length Object -- Other -- Writing Tool Object -- Flower Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 27.556 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Gayton, Clark, Mrs., 1779-1809. Pigott, James, Rev., 1809-1822. Thresher, William, Mrs. (Lydia Pigott), Fareham, Hampshire, England Thresher, W., Capt., Fareham, Hampshire, England Thresher, Lucy Mabel, Christie's, London, England Sale (Nov. 24, 1922), lot 106. M. Knoedler & Co., London, England American Art Association, Sale (Jan. 5-6, 1927), lot 87. Metropolitan Galleries, New York, New York 1927. Acquired 1927. Remarks:  Clark Gayton died ca. 1787 and after his wife remarried: first to Mr. Newnham and second, in 1801, to Reverend James Pigott. References:  "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. 24. "Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. Prown, Jules David. "John Singleton Copley," Cambridge, MA: Published for the National Gallery of Art, Washington [by] Harvard University Press, 1966, no. 384. Archives of American Art Photographs. Illustration:  Image on file. "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pg. 65. 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 24150010   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 24150010 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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