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Epes Sargent
John Singleton Copleyc. 1760
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Epes Sargent
- Creator: John Singleton Copley
- Date Created: c. 1760
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 126.6 x 101.7 cm (49 13/16 x 40 1/16 in.) framed: 144.8 x 118.1 cm (57 x 46 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: John James Dixwell [1806-1876], Boston, the sitter's great-great-grandson;[1] his daughter, Caroline Dixwell Clements [Mrs. George Henry Clements, 1856-1931], New York;[2] her daughter, Anna Clements Knauth [Mrs. Oswald Whitman Knauth, 1890-1965], New York;[3] her son, Arnold Whitman Knauth II [b. 1918], Rockport, Massachusetts; (Milch Galleries, New York), 1958; (Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York), 1958-1959;[4] purchased 1959 by NGA with funds from the Avalon Foundation. [1] Dixwell, lender to the exhibition at the Boston Atheneum in 1863, is the earliest recorded owner of the portrait. It probably descended from the sitter to his son Epes [1721-1779], to his son Epes [1748-1822], to his daughter Esther [Mrs. John Dixwell, 1776-1865], mother of John James Dixwell; see Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent, _Epes Sargent of Gloucester and his Descendants_, Boston and New York, 1923, 10-13. [2] Sargent and Sargent 1923, 14; _Social Register, New York, 1932_ (New York, 1931), 153. [3] Sargent and Sargent 1923, 15; obituary, _The New York Times_, 12 April 1965, 35. [4] Information from M. P. Naud, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, in conversation with Mary Ellen Fraser, intern, NGA, 26 July 1988; conservation report from Hirschl and Adler Galleries, 30 March 1959, in NGA conservation files.
- Medium: oil on canvas
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