Joseph Badger
Born Charlestown, Mass., March 14, 1707/8.
Died Boston, May 11, 1765.

Captain-Lieutenant John Larrabee, about 17501
Oil on bed ticking
83 1/8 x 50 1/4 in. (212.1 x 127.6 cm)
Museum Purchase, 1920.53
Provenance
By descent in the Edes family to Mrs. Henry N. (Hannah N.) Conklin, Brooklyn, New York, by 1862; Edward Goodwin, Brooklyn, by 1895; George H. Ainslie, a Brooklyn art dealer, by 1905, offered in a letter to the Worcester Art Museum as a painting by Copley; Mr. M. L. Goodwin, by 1917; Frank Bulkeley Smith, Esq., Worcester, by 1917. Purchased from the Frank Bulkeley Smith sale, through Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1920.2

References
Edes 1862, 16.

Ridlon 1895, 821.

Bayley 1916, 260.

Brooklyn Institute 1917, 3, opp. 3.

Park 1918a, frontispiece, 24–25, 37.

Dunlap 1918, III, 282, opp. 282.

Smith Collection 1920, cat. no. 79, n.p.

Worcester Annual Report 1921, 16, 30.

Worcester 1922, 163.

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1926, n.p.

Worcester Annual Report 1927, 28.

Bayley 1929, 29.

Lee 1929, 203.

Sherman 1932, 31.

Burroughs 1936, 50 and plate 40.

American Portraits 1939, 236.

Worcester 1943.

Forbes 1943, 84.

Worcester 1948, 77.

Barker 1950, 124.

"Shop Talk: Paintings for Collectors," Antiques 72, no. 5 (November 1957): 414.

Pierson and Davidson 1960, 286.

Prown 1966, I, 14 n 9.

Wilmerding 1968, 7, 10, 11, 15.

Dresser 1971, 475–77.

Nylander 1972, 61.

Dresser 1972, 4, 5, 10, 16 n 9.

Neumeyer 1974, 46, 304, and plate 39.

Reutlinger 1975, 15–16.

Wilmerding 1976, 34 and plate 31.

Teitz 1979, 18–19.

Quick 1981, 17, 94.

Simon 1987, 21–22, 23.

Wilmerding 1987, 14, 15, 18.

Allen 1991, 50, 52.

Fort and Quick 1991, 91, 92.

Exhibitions
Early American Paintings, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, February 3–March 12, 1917, cat. no. 3.

A Gallery of National Portraiture and Historic Scenes, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, June 13–October 10, 1926, cat. no. 149.

New England Painting, 1700–1775, Worcester Art Museum, February 17–March 31, 1943, no. 23.

The Colonial Epoch in America, Worcester Art Museum, April 18, 1975–January 4, 1976, cat. pp. 15–16.

American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, April 27–June 24, 1979, cat. pp. 18–19.

American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720–1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 17, 1981–January 31, 1982; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C., March 17–June 6, 1982, cat. no. 9.

Notes
1. The portrait’s present title reflects Larrabee’s military rank as published at the time of his death. The painting also has been published as: Captain John Larrabee (Brooklyn Institute 1917, 3); Captain John Larrabee, Lieutenant of Castle William (Smith Collection 1920, cat. no. 79, n.p.); and John Larrabee (Dunlap 1918, III, opp. 282).

2. For the provenance up to Edward Goodwin (1895), see Ridlon 1895, 821. The work was offered to the Worcester Art Museum as a portrait by John Singleton Copley in George H. Ainslie to Gentlemen, December 9, 1905. M. L. Goodwin is identified as the owner in Brooklyn Institute 1917, 3. Frank Bulkeley Smith is identified as the owner in Park 1918a, 25. The museum’s purchase is documented in an invoice, April 22, 1920. All correspondence in object file, Worcester Art Museum.