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Anne Fairchild Bowler (Mrs. Metcalf Bowler)
John Singleton Copleyc. 1763
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication _American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century_, pages 28-30, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
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- Title: Anne Fairchild Bowler (Mrs. Metcalf Bowler)
- Creator: John Singleton Copley
- Date Created: c. 1763
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 127.2 x 102.2 cm (50 1/16 x 40 1/4 in.) framed: 142.9 x 118.1 x 4.4 cm (56 1/4 x 46 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Susan Louisa Pendleton Bowler [Mrs. Robert Bonner Bowler, d. 1877], Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky;[1] her daughter, Louisa Foote Bowler Livingston [Mrs. John Callendar Livingston, 1861-1933], New York;[2] her daughter, Louise Alida Livingston [d. 1967], Oyster Bay, New York; gift 1968 to NGA. [1] Mrs. Bowler probably inherited the portrait from her husband Robert Bonner Bowler, the sitter's grandson, who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1803 and moved to Cincinnati. They were married in 1842; Noadiah Potter Bowler, _Record of the Descendants of Charles Bowler_. (Cleveland, 1905), 42. The date of Bowler's death is unknown; he predeceased his wife (vital statistics file, Cincinnati Historical Society). [2] Bowler 1905, 97; obituary, _The New York Times_, 16 August 1933, 17; she is called Louise in some sources. [3] "National Gallery Acquires Its 10th Painting by Copley," _The New York Times_, 19 July 1968, 25.
- Medium: oil on canvas
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