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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

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