Henry Hill by John Singleton Copley
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Henry Hill

John Singleton Copley · c. 1765–70

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Henry and Anna Hill, Boston, about 1770 to 1828; by descent to their nephew, Thomas Hill, Boston, after 1828; Mrs. Todd, Cambridge, MA, by 1873; by descent in the Hill family to W. Eliot Fette, Cambridge, MA, before 1938; by descent to his daughter, Margaret Atherton Noyes, Cambridge, MA, 1938; by descent to her son, Eliot Fette Noyes, New Canaan, CT; bequeathed to his wife, Mrs. Eliot Fette Noyes, New Canaan, CT, to 2006; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005–2006), p. 22.
  • Augustus Thorndike Perkins, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley (Boston, Osgood, 1873), p. 72.
  • Frank W. Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley (Boston, Garden Press, 1910), p. 51.
  • Frank W. Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins (Boston, Taylor Press, 1915), p. 142.
  • Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley in America, 1738–1774 (National Gallery of Art/ Harvard University Press, 1966), p. 67, fig. 242.

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