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John Singleton Copley (painter)
American, 1738 - 1815
The Copley Family, 1776/1777
oil on canvas
Overall: 184.1 x 229.2 cm (72 1/2 x 90 1/4 in.) framed: 226.1 x 271.8 x 13.9 cm (89 x 107 x 5 1/2 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
1961.7.1
On View
From the Tour: British and American Grand Manner Portraits of the 1700s
Object 3 of 12

1777The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser, April 26, 1777.
1777Royal Academy, Exh. cat. London, 1777: no. 61.
1777The London Packet, or New Lloyd's Evening Post, April 25-28, 1777.
1832Cunningham, Allan. The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors and Architects. London, 1829-1833: 6 vols. (1832): 5:178-179.
1862International Exhibition, Exh. cat. London, 1862, no. 51. [See Graves, Algernon. A Century of Loan Exhibitions London, 1912: 1:206, no. 51, "Family Portraits," lent by Lord Lyndhurst.
1867Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the Artists. New York, 1867: 79.
1873Boston Atheneum, Exh. cat. 1873, no. 144. [See Perkins and Gavin 1980, 41.]
1873Perkins, Augustus Thorndike. A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston, 1873: 20-21, 48-49, 134.
1874Boston Atheneum, Exh. cat. 1874, no. 130. [See Yarnall and Gerdts 1986, 825, under "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."]
1882Amory, Martha Babcock. The Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, R.A.. Boston, 1882: 12, 23, 77-80, 106-107, 240, 262-263, 438.
1888Cook, Clarence. Art and Artists of Our Time. 3 vols. New York, 1888: 3:159, repro., 160.
1890Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts. Fourteenth Annual Report (for the year ending December 31, 1889). Boston, 1890: 46.
1892Museum of Fine Arts. Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, With a Summary of other Works of Art, Exhibited on the Second Floor. 3rd ed. Boston, 1892: 15, no. 140.
1895Museum of Fine Arts. Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, With a Summary of other Works of Art, Exhibited on the Second Floor, Boston, 1895: 17, no. 150.
1903"Second Picture Gallery." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin 1, no. 3 (July 1903): 18.
1905Isham, Samuel. The History of American Painting. New York, 1905: 37-38, repro. 35.
1906Handbook of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 1906: 102, repro.
1910Bayley, Frank W. A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston, 1910: 35.
1915Bayley, Frank W. The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston, 1915: 35-36, 79, 101-102.
1924Addison, Julia de Wolf. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Rev. ed. Boston, 1924: 6-7.
1930Bolton, Theodore and Harry Lorin Binsse. "John Singleton Copley." The Antiquarian 15 (December 1930): 116.
1938John Singleton Copley, 1738-1815, Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1938: no. 22.
1938Parker, Barbara Neville and Anne Bolling Wheeler. John Singleton Copley; American Portraits in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature with Biographical Sketches. Boston, 1938: 8-9.
1943Walker, John, and James and MacGill. Great American Paintings from Smibert to Bellows, 1729-1924. London, New York, and Toronto, 1943: 22, pl. 11.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 140, color repro.
1951Walker, John. Paintings from America. Harmondsworth, England, 1951: 16, 42, pl. 5.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 230, repro.
1965John Singleton Copley, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Metropolitan Musuem of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965-1966: no. 61.
1966Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966: 1:61; 2:262-263, n. 373, 387, 403-404, 414-415, fig. 344.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:394, color repro.
1970American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 44, repro.
1972Curwen, Samuel. The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist. Andrew Oliver ed. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972: 1:132; 2:701.
1974American Self-Portraits 1670-1973. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Indianapolis Museum of Art. Washington, D.C., 1974: no. 6.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: color repro. 389.
1980La Pintura de Los Estados Unidos de Museos de la Ciudad de Washington. Exh. cat. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1980-1981: no. 1.
1980Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 13, no. 4, color repro.
1980American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 136, repro.
1980Wilmerding 1980, 46, color repro. 47.
1981Williams 1981, 24, 30, color repro. 44-45.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 384, no. 545, color repro.
1986Prown, Jules David. "Benjamin West's Family Picture: A Nativity in Hammersmith," In Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor: Essays, John Wilmerding, ed. Washington, 1986: 281, 286 n. 32, repro. 279.
1987Lovell, Margaretta M. "Reading Eighteenth-Century American Family Portraits; Social Images and Self-Images." Winterthur Portfolio 22 (Winter 1987): 256, repro. 259.
1988Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington (rev. ed.), 1988: 54, no. 4, color repro.
1992American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 150, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 210, repro.
1995John Singleton Copley in England. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1995-1996: no. 1.
1995Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 46-54, color repro. 47.

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