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John Singleton Copley (painter) American, 1738 - 1815 Colonel William Fitch and His Sisters Sarah and Ann Fitch, 1800/1801 oil on canvas overall: 257.8 x 340.4 cm (101 1/2 x 134 in.) framed: 283.9 x 365.8 x 11.1 cm (111 3/4 x 144 x 4 3/8 in.) Gift of Eleanor Lothrop, Gordon Abbott, and Katharine A. Batchelder 1960.4.1 On View |
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| 1801 | "Exhibition of Paintings, &c. At the Royal Academy, Somerset-Place." St. James Chronicle, or British Evening Post (7-9 May 1801): 4. |
| 1801 | Royal Academy, Exh. cat. London, 1801, no. 21. [See Graves 1905-1906, 2:159] |
| 1801 | "Royal Exhibition. Number VI." Oracle, and The Daily Advertiser (7 May 1801): 3. |
| 1801 | "Royal Acadmy, III". The Morning Herald (1 May 1801): 2. |
| 1801 | "Royal Academy". The Morning Herald (27 April 1801): 3. |
| 1829 | Boston Atheneum, Exh. cat. 1829: no. 47. [See Perkins and Gavin 1980, 39, as Col. W. Fitch, Taking Leave of His Sisters, Before Embarking With His Regiment for Actual Service, lent by J. Lloyd. |
| 1867 | Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the Artists. New York and London, 1867: 72. |
| 1873 | Perkins, Augustus Thorndike. A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston, 1873: 54. |
| 1882 | Amory, Martha Babcock. The Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, R.A.. Boston, 1882: 193, 195-196, 202-203. |
| 1905 | Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. 8 vols. London, 1905-1906, 2:159. |
| 1915 | Bayley, Frank W. The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston, 1915: 104. |
| 1966 | Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966: 2:362, 388, 419-420. |
| 1970 | American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 44, repro., as Colonel Fitch and His Sisters. |
| 1975 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 394, color repro. 395. |
| 1980 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 136, repro. |
| 1981 | Williams 1981, 31, repro. 34. |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 390, no. 556, color repro., as Colonel Fitch and His Sisters. |
| 1992 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 151, repro. |
| 1995 | Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 81-87, color repro. 83. |
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