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Adam Babcock, (painting). Artist:  Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815, painter. Title:  Adam Babcock, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1774. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  46 1/16 x 36 1/8 in. (117 x 91.7 cm) Description:  Three-quarter-length seated portrait of Adam Babcock (1740-1817) wearing a brown suit with gold buttons. He holds a pen in his right hand which rests on a table and a piece of paper in his left hand. Subject:  Portrait male -- Babcock, Adam -- Knee length Occupation -- Vendor Object Type:  Painting Owner:  National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1978.79.1 (2756) Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Blake, Edwin A., Macbeth Gallery, New York, New York 1916. Chapman, Alice Greenwood, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1917. Macbeth Gallery, New York, New York 1919. Meeker, Arthur, Chicago, Illinois Murray, Henry Alexander, Mrs. (Fannie Morris Babcock), New York, New York Gift of Murray, Henry A. & Caroline C., References:  Miles, Ellen G., "American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995. National Gallery of Art, 1988, 1990. 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. 39. Prown, Jules David, "John Singleton Copley," Cambridge: Published for the National Gallery of Art, Washington [by] Harvard University Press, 1966, no. 333. 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 80130020   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 80130020 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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