Hopkinson family selected papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hopkinson family
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791
label: Names
content: Hopkinson, Joseph, 1770-1842
label: Names
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
label: Names
content: Trumbull, John, 1756-1843
label: Names
content: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum directors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Commissioning
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1991 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Bound by the family in volumes, which are not chronological and later donated to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Only the art related materials were filmed from the approximately 6 linear feet of papers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hopkinson family
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Prominent political family in Philadelphia, Penn. and Bordentown, N.J. Joseph Hopkinson was a U.S. Congressman, federal judge, president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a collector.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (partial microfilm reel)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1765-1859
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hopkhopk
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4560 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, 1766-1767, from Francis Hopkinson regarding his stay with Benjamin West; letters, 1817-1840, to Joseph Hopkinson from or regarding artists, among them Clevenger, C.R. Leslie, Thomas Sully, Benjamin Trott, and John Trumbull (2 letters regarding sales to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the work of Benjamin West); letters from Hopkinson's tenure as President of the PAFA relating to exhibitions, purchases, donations and acquisitions including Murillo's "Roman Daughter" and other works by American and European artists, complaints from artists, loans and gifts from Hopkinson to other collections, the commission of a series of medals of generals based on paintings by Thomas Sully and Moritz Furst;
label: Scope and Contents
content: letters relating to Joseph Bonaparte, Count of Survilliers whom Hopkinson represented in legal and art matters, including requests for gifts from the Count's collection; an early biographial sketch of Joseph Hopkinson, and a list of the contents of the Bordentown house.