1957.224: Study for "Charles I Demanding Impeachment of Five Members of The House of Commons"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1957.224

People

John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)

Title

Study for "Charles I Demanding Impeachment of Five Members of The House of Commons"

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1785

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228199

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

64.1 x 76.5 cm (25 1/4 x 30 1/8 in.)
framed: 75.9 x 88.3 x 7 cm (29 7/8 x 34 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

By descent to the artist's son, Lord Lyndhurst, London, 1815, sold [through his estate sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, March 5, 1864, lot 63]; to Waters. Lady duCane, sold [through her sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, February 17, 1902, lot 43]; to Brage. Baron Aberdare, by 1908, sold [through his sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, June 3, 1932, lot 85]; to Chance. Copley Amory, Jr., gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Copley Amory, Jr.

Accession Year

1957

Object Number

1957.224

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Catalogue of the Very Valuable Collection of Pictures of the Rt. Hon. Lord Lyndhurst, deceased..., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, March 5, 1864), p. 6, lot 63
• Henry T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists, Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, Putnam (New York, NY, 1867), p. 79
• Augustus Thorndyke Perkins, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, J. R. Osgood & Company (Boston, MA, 1873), p. 22, 132
• Algernon Graves, Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912 (London, England, 1913 - 1915), vol. I
• Frank William Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins, The Taylor Press (Boston, MA, 1915), pp. 34, 36, 76
• John Singleton Copley, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1965), pp. 119, 122, cat. 93, ill.
• World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corp. (Chicago, IL, 1965), ill.
• Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1966), vol. 2, pp. 344, 350, 402, 436, pl. 601
• Monroe Stearns, The Story of New England, Random House (New York, NY, 1967), ill.
• Justice and the Palette, exh. cat., Carroll Reece Museum (Johnson City, TN, 1968), cat. 19
• Ige Verslype, "'You will be glad to know in what manner an Historical composition is made': A Study of the Preparatory Stages of John Singleton Copley's (1738-1815) History Paintings", Student Papers from the 30th Conference of the Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, 2004), pp. 1-4, fig. 3
• Kimberly Orcutt, Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2004), pp. 7, 12
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 152-153, cat. 95, ill.
• Charlotte Emans Moore, Subscription Campaigns: Contributions in Support of Community, brochure, Boston Athenaeum (Boston, 2018), p. 10

Exhibition History

• Spring Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 03/01/1908 - 06/01/1908
• Spring Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 03/01/1909 - 06/01/1909
• John Singleton Copley, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 09/18/1965 - 10/31/1965; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 11/20/1965 - 01/02/1966; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/22/1966 - 03/06/1966
• Justice and the Palette, Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, 03/10/1968 - 04/28/1968
• The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
• Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/08/2004 - 08/29/2004
• Subscription Campaigns: Contributions in Support of Community, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 04/09/2018 - 09/01/2018

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