Mrs Humphrey Devereux | |
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Artist | John Singleton Copley |
Year | 1771 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Subject | Mary Devereux |
Dimensions | 103 cm × 81.3 cm (41 in × 32.0 in) |
Location | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand |
Mrs Humphrey Devereux is a 1771 oil painting on canvas by the Anglo-American painter John Singleton Copley. It is part of the international painting collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. [1] [2]
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John Greenwood commissioned the portrait of his mother on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday. [3] [4] [5] It came to New Zealand in 1843 with John Danforth Greenwood. [1] [6] The painting underwent restoration for the exhibition Angels & Aristocrats in 2012. [7] In 2018 the painting went on long-term display in Te Papa's Tūrangawaewae: Art and New Zealand exhibition. [8] [9]