Portrait of a Man

Artist Nathaniel Dance British, 1735–1811

Datecirca 1770

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions50 x 40 1/8 in. (127 x 101.9 cm)
Frame: 57 5/8 x 47 1/2 x 2 in. (146.4 x 120.7 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. R. Philip Hanes, in honor of Richard Thurmond Chatham

Object numberG.63.14.1

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Not on view

ProvenanceUnknown British dealer; sold to Robert S. Sloan, County Gallery, White Plains, NY, 1959; sold to dealer syndicate represented by The Old Print Shop, Inc, New York, c. 1960; sold to R. Philip Hanes, Jr., Winston-Salem, NC, 1961 (as by Copley); given to NCMA, 1963.

Published References"Painting Sold in Job Lot Proves to be a Copley," New York Herald Tribune, (December 7, 1960), illus., unnumbered page.

Harry Shaw Newman, ed., The Old Print Shop Portfolio 20 (June-July, 1961), 240, illus.

George Wiswell, "A Copley Rescued," Art in America 50 (1962), 86-87, illus.

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1136 (September 1963), listed 6 (as Copley).

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly 26 (Autumn 1963), listed 354 (as Copley).

M-L. D'Otrange Mastai, "The Connoisseur in America: Copley's Dual Mode," Connoisseur 154 (November 1963), 204-205, illus.

"In the Museums," Antiques 84 (November 1963), noted and illus. 606.

Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1963), cat. no. 6 (as by Copley), illus. (b-w).

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), briefly discussed 7, listed 58, illus. (b-w) 48 (as Copley).

Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, 1966), listed among "Attributed Pictures", vol. 1, 241.

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 12, illus. (b-w) (as by Copley).

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Paintings and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 16, illus. (b-w) (as by Copley).

American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 8 (as by Copley).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 230 (as attributed to Copley).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition," March 23-April 28, 1963, no. 6 (as by Copley), illus. (b-w).

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 8 (as by Copley).

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "Bicentennial/Bicentennial: American Paintings and Audubon Prints from the North Carolina Museum of Art," October 29-December 3, 1989.

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