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"title": "Year in Review: 1980",
"description": "Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).",
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"description": "Washington, National Gallery of Art, John Singleton Copley, 1738-1815 (18 September - 31 October 1965), traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (20 November 1965 - 2 January 1966), traveled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (22 January - 6 March 1966); exhibition catalogue, pp. 36, 136, illus. no. 21.",
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"description": "Anna Powell Rogers?",
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"There is question as to whether this painting was ever owned by Anna Powell Rogers. The suggestion comes from Frank W. Bayley's \"The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley\" (1915), which lists \"Miss A.P. Rogers\" as the current owner of the portrait. A note in the curatorial file, however, remarks that Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. did not believe she owned the painting, but rather thought that Mrs. Henry Rogers passed it directly to Elizabeth Cabot.
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"description": "Mr. or Mrs. Henry Rogers, possibly by descent to Mrs. Rogers' sister, Elizabeth Cabot",
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"Barbara Neville Parker's and Anne Bolling Wheeler's John Singleton Copley (1938) includes Mrs. Henry Rogers in the provenance, while Augustus Thorndike Perkin's A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley (1873) lists Henry Rogers as the current owner.
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"did_you_know": "The museum also owns Copley\u2019s original bill of sale for this painting and its frame.",
"description": "Less than two months before the 80-year-old Powell passed away, one of her sons commissioned this portrait in order to commemorate her life and create an heirloom for future generations. According to the sitter\u2019s granddaughter, Powell was \u201ca little woman of sober conviction and strong Presbyterian faith.\u201d The painting passed through a line of female descendants until shortly before it was given to the museum.",
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