An Exhibition of Early American Paintings

About the exhibition

The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences presented early American paintings in 1917. The documented selection includes John Singleton Copley’s portraits of Epes Sargent, Adam Babcock and Abigail Smith Babcock. Each portrait has its own exhibition catalogue number and surviving museum identity. Examples securely identified in the museum’s object histories are John Singleton Copley’s Epes Sargent (c. 1760; oil on canvas) and John Singleton Copley’s Adam Babcock (c. 1774; oil on canvas). The connected works form a partial checklist; exact opening and closing days are not established by this evidence.

Also recorded as: An Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences