John Singleton Copley
Born Boston, Mass., July 3, 1738.
Died London, England, September 9, 1815.

Lucretia Chandler Murray (Mrs. John Murray),
17631
Oil on canvas
49 1/4 x 39 1/4 inches (125.1 x 99.7 cm)
Bequest of H. Daland Chandler, 1969.37

Inscription
Signed and dated, bottom right, in brown paint: "J. S. Copley Pinx 1763"

Provenance
The sitter Lucretia Chandler Murray (1730–1768) and her husband John Murray (1720–1794); by bequest to their daughter Lucretia Murray (1762–1836), 1794; by bequest to her first cousin once removed Nathaniel Chandler (1772–1852) and his wife Dolly Chandler (1783–1869), South Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1836; to their daughter Mary Greene Chandler Ware (Mrs. John Ware) (1818–1907), South Lancaster; by bequest to her nephew Francis Ward Chandler (1844–1926), Boston, 1907; by gift to his son Henry Daland Chandler (1884–1969), Boston, Christmas, 1921. On deposit at the Worcester Art Museum, beginning 1965.2

References
Perkins 1873, 16, 25, 63, 88.

Phillips 1902, 23 note.

Sturgis 1903, 156, 157.

Potter 1908, 21, 25.

Bayley 1915, 182–83.

Antiques 98, no. 5 (November 1920): 746, 747.

Bowen 1926, I, 114.

Bayley 1929, 243.

Bowen 1930, III, 441.

Bolton and Binsse 1930b, 118.

BMFA 1938, 25.

Parker and Wheeler 1938, 141 and pl. 40.

Flexner 1948, 32.

Sweet 1951, 152, 153, 154, 155.

Dresser 1961, 37.

Mackay 1964, 30.

Dresser 1966a, 25.

Prown 1966, I, 36, 40, 111, 120, 124, 146, 224, and fig. 104.

Accessions 1969, 438, 448.

Worcester Annual Report, 1969, front cover, ix–x, xi, and back cover.

Butler 1970, 137.

Chronique 1970, 72.

Reutlinger 1975, 24, 25.

West 1978, frontispiece.

Sabine 1979, II, 116.

Miles and Simon 1979, in entry for cat. no. 26, n.p.

Teitz 1979, 32–33.

Fairbrother 1981, 123, 124, 126, 128, 129.

Breen 1993, 54.

Rebora 1995, 91, 100 n. 33, 181 n. 5, 190.

Lovell 1998, 21–22, 26, 28, 29, 32, 36, 39.

Exhibitions:
John Singleton Copley, 1738
1815. Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Miniatures and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 1–March 15, 1938, cat. no. 55.

The Work and Environment of Paul Revere, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 1–October 10, 1942.

The Colonial Epoch in America, Worcester Art Museum, April 18, 1975–January 4, 1976, cat. pp. 24 and 25.

American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, April 27–June 24, 1979, cat. pp. 32–3.

Notes:
1. This painting has also been published as Mrs. Col. John Murray (Perkins 1873, 88); Mrs. Colonel John Murray (Bayley 1915, 182); Mrs. John Murray (Dresser 1961, 37); and Mrs. John Murray (Lucretia Chandler), (Bayley 1929, 243).

2. The descent of the portrait is recorded in John Murray, Will, January 14, 1793, Worcester County, Register of Probate, Series A, case 42600, foreign will; Lucretia Murray, Will, filed September 10, 1836, Worcester County, Register of Probate, Series A, case 42604; Perkins 1873, 88; Mary G. Ware, Will, July 16, 1904, filed February 12, 1907, Worcester County, Register of Probate, Series B, case 39381; Potter 1908, 21; Bowen 1926, I, 114; Francis Ward Chandler to Henry Daland Chandler, December 25, 1921; and Henry Daland Chandler to Louisa Dresser, May 17, 1965. All documents from object file, Worcester Art Museum.