Portrait of Mrs. Joseph Scott

Artist John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 - 1815)

Dateca. 1765

Geographic OriginBoston, Massachusetts

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: H 58 1/4 x W 47 in. (H 148 x W 119.4 cm)
Image: H 50 x W 40 in. (H 127 x W 101.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase 1948 The Members' Fund

Object number48.508

On View

On view

Object NamePainting | frame

Title Details

Descriptive Title Portrait of Mrs. Joseph Scott

Remarks on exhibit label

Descriptive Title Mrs. Joseph Scott (Freelove Olney)

ProvenanceDescended family of sitter; Mrs. Wolcott (1836); Mrs. E. M. Winslow (possibly Martha Scott Winslow, 1864); Charles Winslow; The Misses Winslow, Boston, Massachusetts (possibly Lucy Waldo Winslow, 1873); George Scott Winslow, Jr.; to his wife; to her daughter Katherine Winslow Roeder Pollock, Dedham, Massachusetts (1934); to Richard C. Morrison, Boston, MassachusettsExhibition History"Aspects of a Collection: 18th-19th Century American Paintings from the Collection of the Newark Museum", Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York (Mar. 1977)
"American Portraits by John Copley", Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York (Nov. 1975)
"National Sailor's Fair", Boston Athenaeum, Boston Massachusetts (1864)
Boston Athenaeum, Boston Massachusetts (1836)

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