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Mrs. Richard Skinner (Dorothy Wendell)

(American, 1738–1815)
1772
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions101 x 77.5cm (39 3/4 x 30 1/2in.)
Framed: 115.6 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm (45 1/2 x 36 x 2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer
Accession number06.2428
On View
On view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsCenter right: John Singleton Copley. pinx./-1772.-/Boston.
Provenance1772, the artist; 1815, by descent to the artist's son, John Singleton Copley, Jr., Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863), London; 1864, Lyndhurst sale, Christie's, London, lot 60 (as Portrait of a Lady), bought by George Henry Timmins (1829-1875), great-grandson of the artist; 1875, by descent to his sister, Mary Ann Timmins (Mrs. Martin) Brimmer (1827-1906), great-granddaughter of the artist, Boston; 1906, bequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 8, 1906)
Samuel Adams
John Singleton Copley
about 1772
Conservation Status: After Treatment
John Singleton Copley
1765
Conservation Status: After Treatment
John Singleton Copley
1778
Joseph Warren
John Singleton Copley
about 1765
Mrs. Joseph Warren (Elizabeth Hooton)
John Singleton Copley
about 1772
Galatea
John Singleton Copley
about 1754
John Quincy Adams
John Singleton Copley
1796
John Adams
John Singleton Copley
after 1783
Nicholas Boylston
John Singleton Copley
about 1769
Mary and Elizabeth Royall
John Singleton Copley
about 1758
Venus and Cupid
John Singleton Copley
about 1779