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Elizabeth Pitts

John Singleton Copley American, 1738-1815
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About the Artwork

Elizabeth Pitts

ca. 1764

John Singleton Copley

1738-1815

American

Unknown

Pastel on paper, mounted on wood panel

Unframed: 23 3/4 × 18 inches (60.3 × 45.7 cm) Framed: 30 1/2 × 24 1/4 × 3 inches (77.5 × 61.6 × 7.6 cm)

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American Art before 1950

Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

58.359

Public Domain

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1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Goodwin, D. Life and Services of James Pitts and his Sons. Chicago, 1881, pp. 33.

Detroit Art Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1883, p. 19, no. 148.

Pearce and Penhallow. The Penhallow Family. Boston, 1885, p. 22.

Goodwin, D. The Dearborns. Chicago, 1886, p. 21.

Goodwin, D. Provincial Pictures. Chicago, 1886, pp. 70-71.

Paintings by Early American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1915, no. 9.

Pilgrim Tercentenary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1921, no. 8.

Bayley, F. W. Five Colonial Artists of New England. Boston, 1929, p. 253.

Aubin, A. A. A Warner House Biography. Boston, 1935, p. 12.

Parker, Barbara N. and A.B. Wheeler. John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel , and Miniature, with Biographical Sketches. Boston, 1938, p. 227-228.

Payne, Elizabeth . Eight Generations of the Pitts Family. Detroit, 1959, pp. 30-31.

Payne, Elizabeth. “Pitts Family Portraits of the 18th Century.” Antiques (January 1960): pp. 87-89.

Prown, Jules D. John Singleton Copley. Cambridge, MA, 1966, p. 225 (pl. 131).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Pitts, ca. 1764, pastel on paper, mounted on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 58.359.

Elizabeth Pitts
Elizabeth Pitts