About the Artwork
George Boone Roupell
1779 or 1780
John Singleton Copley
1738-1815
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 84 1/16 × 54 inches (213.5 × 137.2 cm) Framed: 96 × 66 1/2 × 5 7/8 inches (243.8 × 168.9 × 14.9 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1983.23
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Label on stretcher: White and Co. Ltd. Bournemouth Written in white chalk: 0956511 Written in orange crayon: Roupell Written in white chalk: illegible number
Provenance
John Singleton Copley
Mrs. John Singleton Copley
Lord Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Jr.. George Boone Roupell (Charthan Park, near East Grinstead, England)
Brigadier George R.P. Roupell (Little Chartham, Shalfors, Surrey, England). November 21, 1979, sale, lot 120, Sotheby's (London, England). H. Schickman Gallery (New York, New York, USA). 1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Works from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904, Volume 2. London, 1905, p. 159.
Whitley, William T. Artists and Their Friends in England, 1700-1799, Volume 2. London, 1928, p. 376.
Rutledge, Anna Wells. "Portraits of American Interest in British Collections." Connoisseur 156 (May 1958): pp. 269-270.
Prown, J.D. John Singleton Copley, 1774-1815, vol. 2. Cambridge, MA, 1966, pp. 266, 387, 439 (fig. 388).
Van Braam, F.A., ed. World Collector’s Annuary. Delft, Holland, 1979, p. 129.
"The Sale-Room." Apollo 111, 217 (March 1980): p. 268.
Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, pp. 64-66 (ill.).
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John Singleton Copley, George Boone Roupell, 1779 or 1780, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1983.23.
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