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JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1738-1815)

Lot 491
19.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1122087
Lot 491 | JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1738-1815)
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JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1738-1815)

SAMUEL PHILLIPS SAVAGE

signed and dated middle right, J. S. Copley pinx 1764; upper stretcher with printed and handwritten paper label detailing its loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on 24 February 1877; center of stretcher with paper label handwritten in ink Put in Hempstead/ Storage Dec 1941/ Taken out Nov 18 – 1944; upper left stretcher signed in modern script Mrs. Richard Savage/ St Paul/ Minnesota; in an eighteenth-century English carved giltwood frame

oil on canvas

50 x 40 ¼ in.

Painted in 1764





Provenance

Samuel Phillips Savage (1718-1797), Boston and Weston, Massachusetts, sitter

John Richard Savage I (1828-1900), Philadelphia, great-grandson

John Richard Savage II (1869-1922), Garden City, Long Island, son

John Richard Savage III (1908-1992), Honolulu, Hawaii, Portland, Oregon, St. Paul, Minnesota and Bainbridge Island, Washington, son

John D. Rockefeller III (1906-1978), New York City and Fieldwood Farm, Mount Pleasant, New York

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

Howard Garfinkle, Miami, Florida, 1972

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1974-1975

Virginia Steele Scott Foundation, Pasadena, California, 1976

Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1992

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

Northeast Auctions, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1-3 August 2008, lot 1551

The Honorable J. William Middendorf II, New York

Christie's, New York, 23 January 2015, lot 162



Literature

Frank W. Bayley, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley (Boston, 1910), p. 92.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Colonial Portraits (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911), pp. 51-52, cat. 19.

Lawrence Park, Major Thomas Savage of Boston and His Descendants (Boston, 1914), p. 25 and illus. opposite p. 24.

Frank W. Bayley and Augustus Thorndike Perkins, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley (Boston, 1915), pp. 218-219.

Barbara Neville Parker and Anne Bolling Wheeler, John Singleton Copley, American Portraits (Boston, 1938), pp. 176-177, pl. 46.

Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley in America, 1738-1774, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C., 1966), pl. 141, pp. 40-41, 113, 118, 122, 124, 126-127, 186-187, 228.

Sinclair Hitchings, “Thomas Johnston,” in Boston Prints and Printmakers, 1670-1775 (Boston, 1973), pp. 116-117.

Kennedy Galleries, advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (November 1975), p. 874.

[Kennedy Galleries, Inc. and Israel Sack, Inc.], Age of Revolution and Early Republic in Fine and Decorative Arts: 1750-1824 (New York, 1977), pl. 4.

Morrison H. Heckscher, “Copley’s Picture Frames,” in Carrie Rebora et al., John Singleton Copley in America (New York, 1995), pp. 145, 158 (fn. 9), 159 (fn.16).



Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1877.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Colonial Portraits, 6 November - 31 December 1911.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1962.

Loretto, Pennsylvania, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, The Virginia Steele Scott Foundation Collection, 9 October 1976 - 9 January 1977.

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc. and Israel Sack, Inc., Age of Revolution and Early Republic in Fine and Decorative Arts: 1750-1824, 14 January - 12 February 1977.
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