Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 234
endants have retained possession of it, they would have been nowenormously wealthy. About the year 1775 Copley sent a ])icture to England consigned tohis countryman, Benjamin West, for exhibition at Somerset House. The j)icture was aportrait of Henry Pelham, Copleys half-brother, the only child of… … which it was stretched, and from the squirrel, a species peculiar, we believe, to America, he III 154 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. judged it to be from this side tlie water, and it was considered so good a work that the rulerequiring that no picture should be hung that A^as not accompanied by the…
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