Worcester Art Museum 55 Salisbury Street Worcester Massachusetts 01609 Accession Number: 1908.7
Date:
1758-1761
Notes:
Owner, 1975.
Prown, Jules David. "John Singleton Copley," Cambridge, MA: Published for the National Gallery of Art, Washington [by] Harvard University Press, 1966.
Worcester Art Museum: Selected Works," Worcester: MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1994, pg. 181.
"American Art from the collection of the Worcester Art Museum," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1979, pg. 28.
Summary:
Portrait of John Bours seated in an interior, his body turned to the right, his legs crossed, his right hand holding a book and his right arm draped over the back of his chair, his left arm resting on the arm of his chair and his left hand raised to his temple as he gazes pensively down to the right. He wears a brown velvet syit with a ruffled white shirt. In the background there is a landscape painting.
