Nathaniel Hurd

Cleveland Museum of Art

Nathaniel Hurd

John Singleton CopleyLinkedCulture matchlcp-4d665555b307

Date
c. 1765
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
America
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
94979

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Hurd was a prominent silversmith and engraver in Boston, and the warm gaze and unforced smile in his portrait by Copley suggest the friendship between the two artists. Hurd's open-collared shirt, as well as the rakishly tilted turban that covers his shaved head in place of a ceremonial powdered wig, create an air of informality that is unusual for a portrait of this time. The artist Copley’s in-laws were consignees for the cargo dumped during the Boston Tea Party.

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Credit line
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Provenance
-1781: Benjamin Hurd [1739-1781], Halifax, Nova Scotia, by descent to his son, John Hurd | 1781-: John Hurd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by descent to his two daughters | -by 1860: Daughters of John Hurd [d. by 1860], Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Mrs. Thomas Barry | By 1860-1869: Mrs. Thomas Barry [d. 1869], Halifax, Nova Scotia, by gift to Walter Wesselhoeft | 1869-1915: Walter Wesselhoeft [1838-1920], Cambridge, MA, consigned to the Copley Gallery | 1915: (Copley Gallery, Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1915-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

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