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Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918,. Miscellaneous artists' letters, receipts and exhibition announcements, 1731-1901.

Title: Miscellaneous artists' letters, receipts and exhibition announcements, 1731-1901.

Fifty-nine letters from artists to various people regarding paintings, art works, advice, and daily activities. Also included are a list, probably in Samuel F.B. Morse's hand, August 1, 1833, of some of the subscribers to a dinner to be given by the National Academy of Design for Charles Robert Leslie; two signed exhibition announcements, one for John H. Twachtman, and Julian A. Weir; four receipts for James Claypoole, William Birch, Gilbert Stuart (signed receipt for payment for a portrait of John Adams, 1815), and Adolph U. Wertmuller; and an indenture release deed for Stephen Warne, 1731.

ArchivalResource: 66 items (on 1 microfilm reel)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81461316 View

Elizabeth S. Navas papers

Title: Elizabeth S. Navas papers

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, magazines and statements by 20th century artists on their works bought for the Roland P. Murdock Collection of the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, by Navas.

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John Singleton Copley receipt

Title: John Singleton Copley receipt

Signed receipt for Mr. Boydell acknowledging "one hundred & sixty four pounds five shillings being the remainder of Eight hundred pounds and in full for Painting a Picture of the Death of Major Pearson [sic]." Copley later bought back the painting. "Death of Major Pierson" now hangs in the National Gallery, London.

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Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

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Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815. Autograph signature, undated.

Title: Autograph signature, undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270535695 View

Fielding, Mantle, 1865-1941. Papers, 1902-1938.

Title: Papers, 1902-1938.

Collection consists primarily of Fielding's study notes for Life and Works of Thomas Sully and Life Portraits of Washington. It includes 273 photographs of Sully portraits that correspond to the catalogue in Life Works of Thomas Sully; an incomplete set of proof pages from Life Works with comments made by Fielding; 23 letters from Lawrence Park to Fielding concerning Gilbert Stuart portraits; 14 letters from Thomas B. Clarke about Stuart's portraits of George Washington; 125 pieces of correspondence from various individuals and galleries mostly pertaining to portraits of George Washington; a set of clippings, photographs, pages from gallery catalogs, and notes on American artists; a scrapbook with pictures from catalogs relating to European artists; 190 photographs of Washington portraits with notes that correspond to items listed in Life Portraits of Washington; 180 photographs, notes, and engravings that address Washington portraits done by unknown artists or that are of questionable attribution; proof pages for Life Portraits with some clippings about the book; and finally, an annotated copy of Fielding's Catalogue of Engraved Work of David Edwin, with miscellaneous notes and letters about it.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84665805 View

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838. Bowditch family business letters, 1826-1861.

Title: Bowditch family business letters, 1826-1861.

Small collection of letters to Nathaniel Bowditch and his son Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, including business letters related to Nathaniel Bowditch's role as actuary for the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, acknowledgments of donations to the Harvard University Library and the Boston Public Library, and letters related to the acquisition of John Singleton Copley's portrait of Charles I for the Boston Public Library. Correspondents include Harvard president Josiah Quincy, Joseph W. Revere, and Edward Everett.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670129552 View

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Department of Education. Department of education files, 1950-2000.

Title: Department of education files, 1950-2000.

Details on the content of each series may be found in the record for that series. In general, program files may contain correspondence, program schedules, statistics, meeting minutes, clippings, announcements, and other materials that document the work of the department in that area.

ArchivalResource: 84 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166478589 View

Hancock, John, 1737-1793. Letter to John Watts, 1773 May 14.

Title: Letter to John Watts, 1773 May 14.

In this letter from Massachusetts commisioners Hancock, Brattle and Hawley, they attempt to draw up an agreement with New York commissioners Watts, Smith, Livingston, and Nicholls over the Massachusetts/New York property boundaries for the Massachusetts Bay.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves) + 1 engraving.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155866182 View

Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

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Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815. ALS : London, to John Boydell, 1800 Feb. 28.

Title: ALS : London, to John Boydell, 1800 Feb. 28.

Applies for the commission to paint the portrait of Boydell that the Court of Common Council has just voted for its chamber. Invites him to see the portrait of Earl Spencer on which he is working.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489362 View

Copley, John Singleton, 1737-1815 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Copley, John Singleton, 1737-1815 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/197947902 View

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Deptartment of Education. Department of education, exhibition files, 1970-2003.

Title: Department of education, exhibition files, 1970-2003.

The exhibition files document the work of the Department of Education in the planning and implementation of exhibitions from 1970 to 2003. The files include correspondence, proposals, contracts, research, publicity, grants, and creative works illustrating the educational components of museum exhibitions, which include special lectures, symposia, workshops, musical and performing arts events, printed and recorded guides, audio-visual shows, and complementary educational exhibitions. These records also reflect the department's responsibility for exhibition brochures and wall labels through various drafts of copy, galleys, and label books. The finished brochures, printed flyers, and announcement inserts have been placed in Series 13, Ephemera, although duplicates are occasionally included in these files. Ongoing programs held in conjunction with exhibitions, however-such as the Shartle Symposia, Evenings for Educators, or Family Days- are contained within the appropriate program series rather than the Exhibition Files. The amount of documentation varies with each exhibition, ranging from single-sheet listings of educational components for February 1981-April 1982 to multiple files regarding one exhibition. Information on exhibitions held during the 1970s is sparse. Typically, an exhibition file unit begins with General Program Information, including program listings, proposals, budgets, announcements, and bibliographies. Correspondence further reflects the planning and implementation of the programs. Substantial amounts of records on a specific component are given their own file. Exhibitions with extensive documentation include Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture (2/4/1990-4/15/1990); The Pen and The Sword: Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast and the American Civil War (8/4/1990-2/4/1991); Rediscovering Pompeii (11/11/1990-1/27/1991); The Sculpture of Indonesia (12/9/1990-3/17/1991); Martin Luther King (two exhibits) (12/9/1990-3/17/1991 and 2/12/1991-7/7/1991); and Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomical Drawings (6/28/1992-9/6/1992).

ArchivalResource: 22 linear ft. Includes one oversize flat box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166478606 View

Adams, John, 1735-1826. ALS, 1812 May 13, Quincy, to Dr. [Benjamin] Rush.

Title: ALS, 1812 May 13, Quincy, to Dr. [Benjamin] Rush.

Mentioning many important figures of the period, Adams says to his old friend: "Scandal may be sometimes killed much sooner than it would die a natural death." He speaks of political issues of the day and of his past. He also mentions a conversation between a Lord Mansfield and John Singleton Copley.

ArchivalResource: 2 3/4 p. ; 23 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13536955 View

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Office of the Registrar. John Singleton Copley in England, exhibition files, 1992-1997.

Title: John Singleton Copley in England, exhibition files, 1992-1997.

This subseries documents the exhibition "John Singleton Copley in England," February 4 -- April 26, 1996. Files contain catalogue information, checklists, clippings, correspondence, registrar's files, symposium information and research files for individual works.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

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Barbara Neville Parker papers

Title: Barbara Neville Parker papers

Material relating to the book JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, by Barbara N. Parker and Anna B. Wheeler, 1938, and papers relating to ew England Miniatures" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 1957. Included are correspondence, printed material, biographical material on Copley; publicity, manuscripts, photographs, and drawings for the book, and research material, clippings, and reviews of the exhibition

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Charles Coleman Sellers papers

Title: Charles Coleman Sellers papers

Artists files containing photographs and correspondence on artists Henry Benbridge, James Claypoole, George Washington Conarroe, John Singleton Copley, Joseph Delaplaine, Jacob Eichholtz, Erastus Salisbury Field, Francis Guy, Lowell Birge Harrison, Robert Charles Leslie, James McMurtrie, Mihaly Munkacsy, Robert Edge Pine, Severin Roesen, Charles Rudy, William Rush, John Smibert, John Vanderlyn, and John Wollaston. Also included are correspondence files pertaining to artistic subjects with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peale family descendents (about Peale family artists), and others.

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Copley family. Papers, 1800-1847.

Title: Papers, 1800-1847.

Correspondence of the family of painter John Singleton Copley. Most of the letters were written to Elizabeth Copley Greene of Boston, Copley's daughter, by her mother, Susanna Farnum Copley, and her sister, Mary Copley, both of whom lived in England with the painter. There are a few letters from J.S. Copley to Gardiner Greene, his son-in-law, and from John Singleton Copley Jr. The letters contain occasional references to Copley's portraits and other paintings and to his financial difficulties. Comments on English social life and the effects of the Napoleonic Wars are frequent. After the death of J.S. Copley Sr. the letters pertain mostly to family matters, with some reference to British political affairs, particularly the affairs of J.S. Copley Jr., who became Baron Lyndhurst and Lord Chancellor.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16781245 View

Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815,. Study for figure pulling on rope and death group [graphic].

Title: Study for figure pulling on rope and death group [graphic]. [1785-1786]

Preparatory drawings of a man pulling on a rope or an oar, two men carrying a lifeless man, and another study of a man pulling on a rope or an oar.

ArchivalResource: 1 drawing on blue-gray wove paper : chalk, black with white highlights ; sheet 35 x 57 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246658429 View