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Man in a Blue Coat

(American, about 1748–1802)
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor on ivory
Dimensions3.56 x 2.54 cm (1 3/8 x 1 in.)
Credit LineA. Shuman Collection—Abraham Shuman Fund
Accession number51.10
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMiniatures
Collections
ProvenanceThe artist; with Bessie Howard, Boston, 1950; to MFA, 1951, purchased for $400.
Henry Pelham (or Jonathan Clarke)
John Singleton Copley
About 1770–74
Henry Pelham (or Jonathan Clarke)
John Singleton Copley
About 1770–74
John Harris
Washington Allston
about 1796
Mrs. James Otis Carter
Edward Greene Malbone
1797
Russell Sturgis (copy after Gilbert Stuart)
Sarah Goodridge
about 1820–30
Gilbert Stuart
Sarah Goodridge
1825
Washington Allston
Edward Greene Malbone
about 1801