John Singleton Copley

Mrs. John Singleton Copley

Lord Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Jr.. George Boone Roupell (Charthan Park, near East Grinstead, England)

Brigadier George R.P. Roupell (Little Chartham, Shalfors, Surrey, England). November 21, 1979, sale, lot 120, Sotheby's (London, England). H. Schickman Gallery (New York, New York, USA). 1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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John Singleton Copley, George Boone Roupell, 1779 or 1780, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1983.23.