Deborah Scollay Melville
Artist
John Singleton Copley
(American, 1738–1815)
Dateabout 1762
Mediumwatercolor on ivory
Dimensions3.2 x 2.5 cm (1 1/4 x 1 in.)
ClassificationsPortrait Miniatures
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1917.184
ProvenanceDeborah Scollay Melville, to about 1768; husband's cousing with surname Swan, Scotland; Lucy Melville Nourse (sitter's niece), Bath, ME, to about 1877; Helen Melville Griggs (her niece), New York, NY, to about 1888; Mrs. Abraham Lansing (her daughter), Albany, NY; unspecified New York dealer; Lawrence Park, Groton MA, to 1917.On View
Not on viewCollections
John Singleton Copley
about 1785
