Cleveland Museum of Art

Anna Dummer Powell

John Singleton CopleyLinkedCulture matchlcp-4d665555b307

Date: 1764
Medium: oil on canvas
Culture: America
Department: American Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 149978

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Less than two months before the 80-year-old Powell passed away, one of her sons commissioned this portrait in order to commemorate her life and create an heirloom for future generations. According to the sitter’s granddaughter, Powell was “a little woman of sober conviction and strong Presbyterian faith.” The painting passed through a line of female descendants until shortly before it was given to the museum. The museum also owns Copley’s original bill of sale for this painting and its frame.

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Credit line: Gift of Ellery Sedgwick Jr., in memory of Mabel Cabot Sedgwick
Provenance: 1980-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | By 1937-1980: Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. [1908-1991], Cleveland, OH, to the Cleveland Museum of Art | By 1920-by 1937: Mabel Cabot Sedgwick [1873-1937], by descent to her son, Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. | -by 1920: Elizabeth Rogers Mason Cabot [1834-1920], by descent to her daughter, Mabel Cabot Sedgwick | By 1915: Anna Powell Rogers? | By 1873: Mr. or Mrs. Henry Rogers, possibly by descent to Mrs. Rogers' sister, Elizabeth Cabot | By 1783: Anna Powell Perkins, Boston, by descent to her granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Rogers, or to Mr. Henry Rogers