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John Singleton Copley: English: Mars, Venus and Vulcan: the forge of Vulcan   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
John Singleton Copley  (1738–1815)  wikidata:Q316016 s:en:Author:John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
 
John Singleton Copley
Description American artist and painter
Date of birth/death 3 July 1738 Edit this at Wikidata 9 September 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston (Massachusetts) London
Work location
Boston, London
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q316016
Title
English: Mars, Venus and Vulcan: the forge of Vulcan
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1754
date QS:P571,+1754-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 76 cm (29.9 in); width: 63.5 cm (25 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,76U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,63.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6350390
Accession number
2013.20
Object history

Provenance:

  • Harriet Brown Chapman, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, about 1873-1903
  • John Finley Chapman, Pueblo, Colorado, about 1905-1960
  • Mrs. James Finley Chapman, Pueblo, Colorado, about 1960-1969
  • Charles Chapman, Mankato, Minnesota, 1969-1976
  • Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
  • Sotheby's, January 16, 1998, lot 236
  • Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
  • Auction: Sotheby's, New York, 11 April 2013, American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, lot 28
Exhibition history

New York Cultural Center; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MInnesota; University of Houston Fine Art Center, Three Centuries of the American Nude, 1975, no. 2 (as lent by Mr. Charles B. Chapman) New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Portraits by John Singleton Copley, 1975-1976, no. 2, illustrated (as The Forge of Vulcan) New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods, no. 9, p. 17 illustrated

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Singleton Copley's America, June 7, 1995 - August 28, 1996
Credit line Purchase: Acquired through the generosity of an anonymous donor
Inscriptions signed b.l.: John S. Copley. Pinx 1754
References http://64.136.229.66:8081/objects/6760/mars-venus-and-vulcan-the-forge-of-vulcan
Source/Photographer Sotheby's

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