Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005949Henry Hill
Provenance
Henry and Anna Hill, Boston, about 1770 to 1828; by descent to their nephew, Thomas Hill, Boston, after 1828; Mrs. Todd, Cambridge, MA, by 1873; by descent in the Hill family to W. Eliot Fette, Cambridge, MA, before 1938; by descent to his daughter, Margaret Atherton Noyes, Cambridge, MA, 1938; by descent to her son, Eliot Fette Noyes, New Canaan, CT; bequeathed to his wife, Mrs. Eliot Fette Noyes, New Canaan, CT, to 2006; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.
Publications
Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005–2006), p. 22. Augustus Thorndike Perkins, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley (Boston, Osgood, 1873), p. 72. Frank W. Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley (Boston, Garden Press, 1910), p. 51. Frank W. Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins (Boston, Taylor Press, 1915), p. 142. Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley in America, 1738–1774 (National Gallery of Art/ Harvard University Press, 1966), p. 67, fig. 242.
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. 1765–70
- Medium
- Pastel on brown paper laid down on canvas, linen, or board
- Dimensions
- 61 × 45.7 cm (24 × 18 in.); Sight: 58 × 43.3 cm (22 7/8 × 17 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowments; purchased with funds provided by William C. Vance from the Vance Family Foundation; Maurice D. Galleher Endowment and General Acquisitions funds
- Accession no.
- 2006.83
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