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Captain Isaac Foster
Joseph Badger1755
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Captain Isaac Foster
- Creator: Joseph Badger
- Date Created: 1755
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 91.7 x 71.2 cm (36 1/8 x 28 1/16 in.) framed: 104.5 x 83.8 x 5.7 cm (41 1/8 x 33 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Mrs. David Buffum, Walpole, New Hampshire, by 1873;[1] her son, Dr. Thomas Bellows Buffum, Walpole, New Hampshire, by 1918;[2] Annie Buffum Williams [Mrs. Nathan W. Williams], Northampton, Massachusetts, 1943.[3] Purchased in Boston before 16 May 1949 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[4] gift 1957 to NGA. [1] Augustus Thorndike Perkins, _A Sketch of the Life and List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley_, Boston, 1873, 125; Mrs. Buffum is described as a descendant. Frank W. Bayley, _The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley_, Boston, 1915, 108-109 repeats Perkins's information. [2] Lawrence Park, _Joseph Badger (1708-1765), And a Descriptive List of some of his Works_, Boston, 1918, 14; Historical Records Survey 1942, 8. [3] Letter from Mrs. Williams to the Frick Art Reference Library, 28 November 1943. [4] A treatment report made for the Garbisches by conservators Sheldon and Caroline Keck notes that the Kecks received the painting on 16 May 1949. An undated information sheet compiled for the Garbisches states that the painting was acquired in Boston. (Both documents are in NGA curatorial files.)
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on bed ticking
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