Samuel Pitts

early 19th century

John Singleton Copley American, 1738-1815

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Title Samuel Pitts

Artwork Date early 19th century

Artist John Singleton Copley

Life Dates 1738-1815

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on panel

Dimensions Unframed: 23 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches (59.7 × 49.5 cm) Framed: 30 5/8 × 26 1/4 × 3 1/2 inches (77.8 × 66.7 × 8.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 58.358

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Provenance

S. Lendall Pitts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. S. Lendall Pitts (Norfolk, Virginia, USA)

1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Goodwin, D. Life and Services of James Pitts and his Sons. Chicago, 1881, pp. 3, 15-20, 34-35.

Detroit Museum of Art. 1883, p. 73, no. 779. [entered as James Pitts as by an unknown artist]

Goodwin, D. Provincial Pictures. Chicago, 1886, pp. 34-35, 39 (ill.).

Paintings by Early American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1915, no. 8.

Pilgrim Tercentenary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1921, no. 9.

Bayley, F. W. Five Colonial Artists of New England. Boston, 1929, p. 255.

Eleventh Loan Exhibition: American Colonial and Early Federal Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 74.

Parker, Barbara N. and A.B. Wheeler. John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel , and Miniature, with Biographical Sketches. Boston, 1938, p. 227. [as a pastel]

Payne, Elizabeth . Eight Generations of the Pitts Family. Detroit, 1959, pp. 32-33.

Payne, Elizabeth. “Pitts Family Portraits of the 18th Century.” Antiques (January 1960): pp. 87-89.

Prown, Jules D. John Singleton Copley. Cambridge, MA, 1966, p. 241.

Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I. New York, 1991, pp. 283-284 (ill.).

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probably after John Singleton Copley, Samuel Pitts, early 19th century, oil on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 58.358.