Nathaniel Hurd John Singleton C (Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art)
The Arts in America in the Eighteenth Century PAINTINGS COPLEY, John Singleton, 1737-1815 Born Boston; died London, England. Stepson of Peter Pelham, probably received his early instruction from him. At seventeen was recognized as a painter. Later established himself as a portrait painter in Boston. Instructed Charles Wilson Peale. In 1775 moved to London, and remained there the rest of his l<strong>if</strong>e. 1. Nathaniel Hurd. About 1765. Signed "J. S. C." lower left corner. Oil on canvas. 30" by 25 Vl'• Frame designed by Paul Revere. Collections: Benjamin Hurd; John Hurd; Mrs. Thomas Barry: Dr. W. Wesselhoeft; Frank W. Bayley. Exhibited: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916, no. 128. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1930, no. 50. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936, no. 23. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Copley Exhibition, 1936. Baltimore Museum of Art, American Painting Exhibition, 1938. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, New England Silver Exhibition, 1939. Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts, 1941. Mentioned: Bayley, L<strong>if</strong>e of Copley, 1915, p. 152. Dunlap, History of the Arts of Design in the U. S., Goodspeed ed., 1918, I, p. 172, (repr.). Avery, American Silver of XVII and XV111 Centuries, 1920, Fig. 101. Cleveland Museum Bulletin, March 1923, (repr. on cover). Dow, The Arts and Crafts in New England, 1927 (frontispiece). Bolton and Binsse, Antiquarian, December 1930, p. 81 (repr). Stark, Art in America from 1600 to 1865, an Illus. Guide for a Nat. Radio Broadcast, from February 3 to May 19, 1934, p. 19 (repr.). (See also pages 90 and 99.) Lent by the Cleveland Museum of Art. 67
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