The Prince Regent as a Hussar

1804/1809

John Singleton Copley

Artist, American, 1738 - 1815

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white and squared in red on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 35.1 × 51.3 cm (13 13/16 × 20 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Singleton Copley, Jr., Lord Lyndhurst; the valet of Lord Lyndhurst; (Vose Galleries, Boston); purchased by the University of Virginia, Museum of Fine Arts; purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1954-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, March 5-25, 1961, no. 11.

1971

  • Master Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond and tour, 1971-1972.

Bibliography

1961

  • Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, 1961, 11

1966

  • Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley, vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966, pp. xx, 379, fig. 666 (as "Study for George IV (as Prince of Wales)").

1970

  • Frankenstein, Alfred. The World of Copley, 1738-1815. New York, 1970: 158, 186.

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, checklist 89

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: 4/3; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Prince of Wales

Wikidata ID

Q64584138

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