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JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1738-1815)
Mrs. Samuel Watts (Sarah (Osborne) Oxnard Watts)
oil on canvas laid down on masonite
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1770-71.
Provenance
Mrs. Samuel Watts, Boston, Massachusetts, the sitter.
Mary Watts, Falmouth, Maine, daughter of the above, by bequest.
Francis Watts, Wells and Portland, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts, son of the above.
Francis Watts, Kennebunk, Maine, Boston and Roxbury, Massachusetts, son of the above.
Mrs. Thomas Joseph Lee Roxbury, Massachusetts, Boston and Longwood, Brookline, Massachusetts, daughter of the above.
Frederick Strong Moseley, Boston and Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1928, third cousin of the above, great-great grandson of the sitter.
Frederick Strong Moseley, Jr., New York, son of the above.
Frederick Strong Moseley III, son of the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 24-27 January 1990, lot 1300B, sold by the above.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 2008, lot 62, sold by the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.
Literature
A.T. Perkins, Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley Boston, Massachusetts, 1873, pp. 120-121.
F.W. Bayley, Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley Boston, Massachusetts, 1910, p. 126.
F.W. Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins, Boston, Massachusetts, 1915, p. 257.
J.B. Potter, “Loans to the Museum,” Annual Report for the Year, Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, 1917, p. 113.
F. W. Bayley, Five Colonial Artists of New England, Boston, Massachusetts, 1929, p. 287.
B.N. Parker and A.B. Wheeler, John Singleton Copley American Portraits in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature with Biographical Sketches, Boston, Massachusetts, 1938, p. 207, pl. 100.
Historical Works Survey, The Works Progress Administration, American Portraits 1620-1825 Found in Massachusetts, vol. II, Boston, Massachusetts, 1939, p. 447, no. 2371.
J.D. Prown, John Singleton Copley in America, 1738-1774, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966, pp. 74, 115, 118, 233, fig. 270.
The Frick Art Reference Library, no. 122-12f.
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, 1917.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, John Singleton Copley 1738-1815: Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Miniatures and Drawings: in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Artist's Birth, February 1-March 15, 1938, p. 29, no. 82.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, John Singleton Copley 1738-1815, September 18, 1965-March 6, 1966, pp. 61-62, 138, no. 44.