
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001093Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)
Provenance
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.
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, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, 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 .
Publications
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).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
- Date
- c. 1764
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 127.6 × 100.9 cm (50 1/4 × 39 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- american colonial
- Place
- England
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 1947.28
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