Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 286
he year 1775 Copley sent a picture to England consigned tohis countryman, Benjamin West, for exhibition at Somerset House. The picture Avas aportrait of Henry Pelham, Copleys half-brother, the only child of his mother by Mr. Pelham,and it represented him as playing with a tame squirrel. No letter… … 154 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. judged it to be from this side the water, and it was considered, so good a work that the rulerequiring that no picture shoukt be liung that was not accompanied by the artists name wasdispensed with. In consequence of the favor witli which this picture was received,…
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