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Copley, John Singleton,
Portrait male -- Pitts, Samuel
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Painting
Samuel Pitts, (painting).
Artist:
Unknown, painter.
Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815, painter. (copy after)
Title:
Samuel Pitts, (painting).
Medium:
Oil on panel.
Dimensions:
23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (59.7 x 49.5 cm)
Description:
Waist-length portrait of Samuel Pitts (1745-1805)
Subject:
Portrait male -- Pitts, Samuel -- Waist length
Object Type:
Copy
Painting
Owner:
Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 58.358
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Pitts, S. Lendall, Detroit, Michigan
Pitts, S. Lendall, Mrs., Norfolk, Virginia
Acquired 1958.
Remarks:
Formerly attributed to John Singleton Copley. Later identified as a copy after Copley.
References:
"American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. A28.
"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.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Antiques (Jan. 1960): pg. 89.
"American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pg. 283.
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 24150133
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Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Paintings
24150133
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