ID: 700001800 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001800	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Mrs. Humphrey Devereux (oil painting (visual work); John Singleton Copley (American painter, 1738-1815); 1770-1771; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Welling...; registration number: 1965-0013-1)

Note: On 23 March 1770 John Greenwood wrote to John Singleton Copley from London, commissioning him to paint a portrait of his mother, the widow of Captain Humphrey Devereux. Greenwood explained, ‘I am very desirous of seeing the good Lady’s Face as she now appears’. Copley was an established portrait painter in Boston and well known for capturing a good ‘likeness’ - one of the primary requisites for a good portrait. Greenwood made only one stipulation: that ‘gravity is my choice of Dress’. This request worked in Copley’s favour and prompted him to produce one of the most notable and least artificial portraits from this period of his practice.

Titles:

Mrs. Humphrey Devereux (preferred,C,U,RP,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

portrait [300015637]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1770-1771

Creator Display:

John Singleton Copley (American painter, 1738-1815) [preferred,VP]

painter Copley, John Singleton (American painter, 1738-1815) [500009177]

Locations:

Current: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) [500311561] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: registration number: 1965-0013-1

Credit Line: Gift of the Greenwood family, 1965

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	oil painting (technique) [300178684]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <painting and painting techniques>, painting techniques, <painting techniques by medium>)

Dimensions: Image: 1020 x 810 mm; Frame: 1180 x 975 x 85 mm

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Devereux, Mrs. Humphrey (American sitter, active 1770-1771) [500354676]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Mrs. Humphrey Devereux	........ [VP,TePapa]
	........ Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=41241; accessed 21 August 2012
	........ Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Subject: ....... [VP,TePapa]

....................... Te Papa online (2000-) accessed 21 August 2012

....................... Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Te Papa online (2000-) accessed 21 August 2012