Robert Hyde, Squire of Hyde

1778

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

Status: On View, Gallery 167
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: John Singleton Copley
Title: Robert Hyde, Squire of Hyde
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1778
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: signed, lower left: "J S Copley Pinx / 1778"
Dimensions: 75.6 × 62.9 cm (29 3/4 × 24 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number: 1943.1002
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The Art News, 38, 34 (1940) ill. p. 67.

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Painting of the Month, Jul, 1940, no cat. as Portrait of Robert Hyde, Esquire.
Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Six Centuries of Painting, Mar. 6–22, 1941; Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts, Feb. 7–27, 1941, (possibly Muskegon, Hackley Art Gallery), no cat., as Portrait of Robert Hyde, Esq., of Hyde.
Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces of Painting, Feb. 5–Mar. 8, 1942, cat. 89, as Portrait of Robert Hyde Esquire, of Hyde.
Chicago, Antique Galleries at Marshall Field & Co., Sept. 9–Nov. 7, 1949, no cat.
Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, John Singleton Copley, Sept. 18–Oct. 31, 1965; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nov. 20, 1965–Jan. 2, 1966; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jan. 22–Mar. 6, 1966, cat. 65.

By descent through the family of Robert Hyde, 1778-1934. E. and A. Silberman, New York, 1940-1943; sold to the Friends of American Art 1943; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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