Hannah Loring

1763

John Singleton Copley American, 1738-1815

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

This painting was most likely executed as a wedding portrait to commemorate the marriage of Hannah Loring to the prosperous merchant Joshua Winslow. Miss Loring, a member of a wealthy Boston family, and her husband were loyal to the British king. (They were among the group whose tea ended up in Boston Harbor.) By 1775 she was widowed and was forced to flee Boston with her family when the British withdrew from the city. Unable to return, her property having been confiscated, she spent the remainder of her life in Canada, where she was forced to live under greatly reduced circumstances.

Title Hannah Loring

Artwork Date 1763

Artist John Singleton Copley

Life Dates 1738-1815

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 49 3/4 × 39 1/4 inches (126.4 × 99.7 cm) Framed: 58 1/4 × 49 1/4 × 4 inches (148 × 125.1 × 10.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford in memory of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.900

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, left center: J.S. Copley Pinx 1763

Inscriptions Inscribed, left center: J.S. Copley Pinx 1763

Provenance

1763-1785, Hannah Loring;
her daughter, Hannah Winslow de Paiba;
her daughter, Mrs. L. G. M. Temple (Toronto, Ontario, Canada);
L. G. M. Temple (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
1893, William Caleb Loring (Boston, Massachusetts, USA).
1938, his nephew, Augustus P. Loring (Boston, Massachusetts, USA).
by 1966, William Caleb Loring (Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, USA).
1970, Kennedy Galleries (New York, New York, USA).
1970-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bayley, F. W. The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston, 1915, pp. 167-168.

___________. Five Colonial Artists of New England. Boston, 1929, p. 291.

Bolton, Theodore, and Harry Lorin Binsse. "John Singleton Copley." Antiquarian 15 (December 1930): p. 118.

Parker, Barbara N. and A.B. Wheeler. John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel , and Miniature, with Biographical Sketches. Boston, 1938, pp. 125-126 (pl. 37).

Prown, Jules D. John Singleton Copley. Cambridge, MA, 1966, p. 38.

Forty Masterworks of American Art. Exh. cat., The Hirschl and Adler Galleries. New York, 1970 (figs. 4-5).

Winchester, Alice. (Untitled Article). Antiques 99 (May 1971): p. 695.

Cummings, Frederick J. and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 132.

Butler, J.T. “Copley Portrait for Detroit.” Connoisseur 176 (April 1971): p. 289.

Hood, Graham, Kathleen Payne, and Nancy Rivard. “American Paintings Acquired During the Last Decade.” Bulletin of the DIA 55, 2 (1977): pp. 65, 69-70 (ill.).

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 180-181 (ill.).

Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I. New York, 1991, pp. 56-57 (ill.).

Kong-Perring, Sharon. "Lydia Loring and the Loring Family of Massachusetts, Part II." The Revere House Gazette, no. 131 (Summer 2018): p. 3 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

John Singleton Copley, Hannah Loring, 1763, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford in memory of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.900.