John Singleton Copley
American, 1738-1815
Henry Hill, c. 1765/70
Pastel on brown paper laid down on canvas, linen or board
61 x 45.7 cm (24 x 18 in.; 580 x 433 mm); 580 x 433 mm (sight)
Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowments; restricted gift of William C. Vance from the Vance Family Foundation; Maurice D. Galleher Endowment and General Acquisitions funds, 2006.83
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
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.
Ownership History
Henry and Anna Hill, Boston; by descent to their nephew, Thomas Hill, Boston, after 1828; Mrs. Todd, Cambridge, Mass., by 1873; by descent in the Hill family to W. Eliot Fette, Cambridge, Mass., before 1938; by descent to his daughter, Margaret Atherton Noyes, Cambridge, Mass., 1938; by descent to her son, Eliot Fette Noyes, New Canaan, Conn.; bequeathed to his wife, Mrs. Eliot Fette Noyes, New Canaan, Conn., to 2006; The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.