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Thomas Hancock

Thomas Hancock
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Artist
John Singleton Copley, 3 Jul 1738 - 9 Sep 1815
Sitter
Thomas Hancock, 13 Jul 1703 - 1 Aug 1764
Date
c. 1758
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on copper
Dimensions
Sight: 9.5 x 7.6cm (3 3/4 x 3")
Frame: 23.2 x 25.7 x 1.9cm (9 1/8 x 10 1/8 x 3/4")
Topic
Miniature
Thomas Hancock: Male
Thomas Hancock: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Merchant
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.81.17
Provenance
The Sitter; his nephew [and adopted son] John Hancock [the signer]; his nephew, John Hancock; his daughter, Mary Lydia Colyer; her niece, Elizabeth Lowell Hancock Wood; her son, Charles Hancock Wood; his brother, William B Wood; his son, Charles H. Wood, Duxbury, Mass.; sold through (Vose Galleries, Boston) 1981 to NPG
Letter from Charles H. Wood, Duxbury Mass., May 26, 1989, to Robert G. Stewart
Offered by Vose Galleries 1976
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view