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Dr. Jonathan Potts (1745-1781)
Henry Benbridge · 1770–76
Provenance
Ownership history
- Rutter family; Knoedler and Company, New York; Christie's, New York (sale 5794, lot 1, December 7, 1984); private collection, Philadelphia; Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, <em>The World of Banjamin West</em>, 1962, cat. 62, as <em>Unidentifed Gentleman</em> by Matthew Pratt.
- Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery, <em>Henry Benbridge: American Portrait Painter</em>, 1971, cat. 46, as <em>Jonathan Potts</em>.
Literature
Published references
- Robert G. Stewart, "The Portraits of Henry Benbridge," <em>The American Art Journal</em> 2, 2 (Fall 1970) 70 (ill.).
- <em>The Magazine Antiques</em> 88, 5 (November 1990) p. 912 (ill.).
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