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Creator:
Hopkinson family  Search this
Subject:
West, Benjamin  Search this
Sully, Thomas  Search this
Trumbull, John  Search this
Hopkinson, Joseph  Search this
Hopkinson, Francis  Search this
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  Search this
Place of publication, production, or execution:
Other
Physical Description:
1 Item, partial microfilm reel
Access Note / Rights:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
Letters, 1766-1767, from Francis Hopkinson regarding his stay with Benjamin West; letters, 1817-1840, to Joseph Hopkinson from or regarding artists, among them Clevenger, C.R. Leslie, Thomas Sully, Benjamin Trott, and John Trumbull (2 letters regarding sales to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the work of Benjamin West); letters from Hopkinson's tenure as President of the PAFA relating to exhibitions, purchases, donations and acquisitions including Murillo's "Roman Daughter" and other works by American and European artists, complaints from artists, loans and gifts from Hopkinson to other collections, the commission of a series of medals of generals based on paintings by Thomas Sully and Moritz Furst;
letters relating to Joseph Bonaparte, Count of Survilliers whom Hopkinson represented in legal and art matters, including requests for gifts from the Count's collection; an early biographial sketch of Joseph Hopkinson, and a list of the contents of the Bordentown house.
Citation:
Hopkinson family selected papers, 1765-1859. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reel 4560 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Originals in: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Use Note:
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Loan:
Loan
Biography Note:
Prominent political family in Philadelphia, Penn. and Bordentown, N.J. Joseph Hopkinson was a U.S. Congressman, federal judge, president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a collector.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Microfilmed in 1991 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Bound by the family in volumes, which are not chronological and later donated to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Only the art related materials were filmed from the approximately 6 linear feet of papers.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this
Art -- Commissioning  Search this
Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this
Theme:
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)10772
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214396
AAA_collcode_hopkhopk
Theme:
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214396