Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Margaret Greene Spencer, sister of the sitter; Phebe Greene Ward; John Ward, son of Phebe Greene War...
Margaret Greene Spencer, sister of the sitter; Phebe Greene Ward; John Ward, son of Phebe Greene Ward; Charles Henry Ward, grandnephew of John Ward, inherited in 1866; Mary M. Ward, widow of Charles Henry Ward; (New York sale 1914); (Vose Gallery, Boston: the first painting bought by the Museum, 1915).
Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). 64th Anniversary of Opening of Gallery. Vose Gallery, Boston, MA (organizer) (March 7-25, 1961). Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). Turkish Fashion in 18th-century America. Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (organizer) (December 10, 1998-April 11, 1999); Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH (April 25-June 13, 1999). CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006). Providence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design (1915 or before?) (see R.C. Vose letter 28 June 1015). Cleveland, The Cleveland School of Art, A Group of Paintings by Early American Artists (17 January - 1 February 1915). Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition (6 June - 20 September 1916), cat. no. 127, p. 38, illus. p. 251. Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October, 1936), cat. no. 22, pp. 21-22. Columbus, OH, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, The Colonial Americas (9 October - 9 November 1947). Boston, Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., A Loan Exhibition Honoring Robert Churchill Vose on Commencing his Sixty-Fifth Year as Head of this Firm: Forty Paintings Which have Passed Through his Hands (7 - 25 March 1961), cat. no. 9. Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum (6 June - 8 September 1991). San Diego, CA, The Timken Museum of Art, John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage: Turkish Fashion in 18th Century America (10 December 1998 - 11 April 1999); traveled to Canton, OH, Canton Art Museum (25 April - 13 June 1999), cat. no. 3, p. 17. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29 - December 17, 2006): "CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits"
The Boston painter Copley's virtuosity at rendering luxurious textiles was precisely the kind of talent that appealed to his patrons. In 1769 the prosperous merchant John Greene commissioned a portrait of himself and this portrait of his wife, Catherine (1735–1785), after thirteen years of marriage. Shown at the age of 34, Mrs. Greene wears a fanciful costume inspired by ancient styles, strikes a pose derived from an English engraving, and pretends to lean against a rock that looks as insubstantial as a theatrical prop. This likeness places Mrs. Greene in an ideal realm far removed from mundane matters. The frame is original.
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 1 structured provenance events · 6 structured exhibitions.