Saint Peter

Details

John Singleton Copley (Boston 1738-1815 London)
Saint Peter
oil on canvas
41 x 34 ¼ in. (104.1 x 87.1 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 September 1979, lot 56, as 'M. Brown' (285 gns.).

Literature

H. von Erffa and A. Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, p. 357, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The attribution to Copley was confirmed by Professor Jules D. Prown in June 1980.

This picture closely relates to the Saint Peter in Benjamin West's Saint Peter Denying Christ of c.1778-9. It also resembles the figure Samuel in Copley's painting Samuel and Eli of 1780 in Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.

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