Portrait Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Prown, Jules David
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content: Jules David Prown research material on artists
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content: Jules David Prown research material on artists / Series 1: Research Material on John Singleton Copley
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951-2010
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.prowjule, Subseries 1.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Portrait files contain correspondence regarding specific portraits by Copley and often include attached photographs and printed material.  Letters discuss provenance, date of the works, biographical information on sitters, and requests to look at the works in person. Documents are arranged alphabetically by name of sitter.  Related notes on sitters, including Prown's computer analysis of sitters, can be found in Subseries 1.1 and correspondence regarding portraits with questionable attribution can be found in Subseries 1.5.