Corcoran Buys Copley Canvas; Purchase Price for Colonial Portrait Not Disclosed

The Washington Post | October 18, 1989| | Copyright

The Corcoran Gallery of Art has bought what art historians view as the picture it most needs.

It has purchased, on the market, a superb Boston portrait by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), Colonial America's most important painter.

The canvas, now on view in the gallery's rotunda, is a stern and forceful portrait of a prosperous Boston Tory, Thomas Amory II (1722-1784). The picture was selected by Franklin Kelly, the Corcoran's curator of collections. Its acquisition closes what he has described as "perhaps the crucial gap in our collection."

Though the price was not disclosed, ...

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