[copy] J.S. Copley, to [Alderman Boydell]

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

Showing item 11 of 211 in this group

Reference code

AND/12/12

Title

[copy] J.S. Copley, to [Alderman Boydell]

Date

[c.1801]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

The Council of the City of London have decided that his picture should be painted to hang in their hall. He asks for Boydell's nomination and offers to show him a portrait of Earl Spencer as an example of his work.

Anderdon records that the original was sold at the sale of Dawson Turner's collection in 1859.