Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene) by John Singleton Copley
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Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)

John Singleton Copley · c. 1764

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hubbard, Boston, from 1764 to 1796; by descent to Mrs. Daniel Hubbard, Boston, from 1796 to 1808; by descent to Henry Hubbard, Boston, from 1808 to 1844; by descent to Mary Greene Hubbard, Boston, from 1844 to 1882; by descent to William Scollay Whitwell, Boston, from 1882 to 1899; by descent to his daughter Mary Hubbard Whitwell, Brookline, Mass, from 1899 to 1908; by descent to her sister, Mrs. William Tudor (Elizabeth Whitwell), Boston, from 1908 to 1929; by descent to her son, Henry Dubois Tudor, Cambridge, Mass, from 1929 to 1947; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Loan Exhibition, Feb. 28–?,1883, lent by William Scollay Whitwell.
  • Worcester Art Museum, Mass., New England Painting, 1700–1775, Feb. 17–Mar. 31, 1943, cat. 35, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Tudor.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, From Colony to Nation, Apr. 21–June 19, 1949, cat. 33.
  • Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Likeness of America, 1680–1820, July 5–Sept. 4, 1949, cat. 14.
  • Birmingham Museum of Art, Opening Exhibition, Apr. 8–June 3, 1951.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
  • Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, The Face of Liberty, Dec. 23, 1975–Feb. 8, 1976, p. 93 .

Literature

Published references

  • Frank W. Bayley, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley (Boston, 1910).
  • Frank W. Bayley, Five Colonial Artists of New England (Boston, 1929).
  • James T. Flexner, John Singleton Copley (Boston, 1948).
  • B. N. Parker and A.B. Wheeler, John Singleton Copley, American Portraits in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature with Biographical Sketches (Cambridge, MA, 1938).
  • Jules David Prown. John Singleton Copley (Cambridge, MA, 1966), 2 vols.
  • David Hanks, “American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques (Sept. 1973), 408–17.
  • Trevor Fairbrother, “John Singleton Copley’s Use of British Mezzotints for His American Portraits: A Reappraisal Prompted by New Discoveries,” Arts Magazine 55 (Mar. 1981), 122–30.
  • Davida Tennenbaum Deutsch, “Needlework Patterns and Their Use in America,” Magazine Antiques (Feb. 1991), 368–81.
  • T.H. Breen, “The Meaning of ‘Likeness’: Portrait–Painting in an Eighteenth–Century Consumer Society,” The Portrait in Eighteenth–Century America (Newark, 1993).
  • Carrie Rebora and Paul Staiti, John Singleton Copley in America, (New York, 1995).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).
  • Carroll Smith–Rosenberg, This Violent Empire, (The University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

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