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Portrait of a boy

Maker

(artist)
1738-1815

Title

Portrait of a boy

Date of Production

(circa?) 1776

Medium

black and white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.7 cm
Width: 16.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.919

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

possibly by descent to John Singleton Copley, Jr., Lord Lyndhurst; possibly in his sale, Christie's (London), 26 - 27 February 1864, lot 669; purchased there by Dr H. (?); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, c. 1924 (£3.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Tate Britain Displays (Winter 2016-Spring 2017), Tate Britain, London, 01/12/2016-01/03/2017

Pictures of Innocence - Children in Portraits from Hogarth to
Lawrence
, Holburne Museum of Art & Bath & England, 22/03/2005-19/06/2005

British painting, Leger Galleries, London, 04/05/1989-02/06/1989 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

John Singleton Copley: American portraits in oil, pastel and miniature. With biographical sketches., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/02/1938-15/03/1938

Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932 ...Less

Literature

Pictures of Innocence: Portraits of Children from Hogarth to Lawrence, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 2005
no. 49
Illus. p. 83

Bull, Duncan, 'Review: Old Master Paintings and Drawings. London', in Burlington Magazine, August 1989
p. 572
see PDF

Gidley, Mick, A catalogue of American paintings in British public collection, Exeter: University of Exeter, 1974
p. 15 ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 5

Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
cat. no. 147 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower centre edge, graphite, Witt number: "919 Copley".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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