John Burgwin (1731–1803)

Artist John Singleton Copley American, 1738–1815, active in Great Britain 1774–1815

Date1783

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/4 x 25 in. (76.8 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 37 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (95.3 x 82.6 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift in memory of Judge W. H. Sumner Burgwyn and his wife Josephine Griffin Burgwyn by their children and grandchildren

Object number2005.14

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Provenance**Commissioned by the sitter, London, 1783; created London, 1783; John Burgwin; to son John Fanning Burgwyn (1783–1864), New Bern, NC; to son Henry King Burgwyn (1811–1877), Northampton County, NC; to son William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn (1845–1913), Weldon, NC; bequeathed to wife Margaret Dunlop Burgwyn, 1913; bequeathed to nephew William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn II, (1886–1977), Woodland, NC, 1941; given to children John Griffin Burgwyn, Jackson, NC; William H. S. Burgwyn Jr., Woodland, NC; Margaret Burgwyn Cooley, Jackson, NC; and Henry King Burgwyn, Murfreesboro, NC, 1960s[?]; half-interest sold to Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1969; [Kennedy Galleries, 1969–2005]; Kennedy Galleries half-interest acquired by James D. and Josephine Burgwyn Pratt (son-in-law and daughter of John Griffin Burgwyn), Asheville, NC, 2005; given to NCMA, 2005.

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