AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1915.534
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Copley, John Singleton
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1738 - 1815
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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John Singleton Copley
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Title:
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Nathaniel Hurd
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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c. 1765
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Creation Start Date:
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1763
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Creation End Date:
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1767
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Materials and Techniques:
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oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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Unframed: 76.2cm x 64.8cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1915.534
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Credit Line:
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Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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Rights:
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Context:
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Nathaniel Hurd and John Singleton Copley were both Boston success stories during the Colonial period. Hurd was the son of a silversmith, but he established a reputation for his engravings (including the seals of Harvard and of several states); Copley, the adopted son of an engraver, became Boston's most important portrait painter.Here Copley shows Hurd in his study; the books of heraldry indicate the sources of Hurd's designs. Hurd is dressed in his stylish, but relaxed, best. Unlike that other Bostonsilversmith, Paul Revere, whom Copley painted in his shirtsleeves at work, Hurd saw himself as much a man of leisure as a craftsman.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1915.534.tif
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