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Bayou Bend Collection

A Unique Gathering of Americana
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Portrait of a Boy

John Singleton Copley, Portrait of a Boy, c. 1758-60, B.54.31
The Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Bayou Bend is particularly renowned for its outstanding furniture, which includes examples by John Townsend, John and Thomas Seymour, John Henry Belter, and Benjamin Latrobe.

Other stellar works in the collection include paintings by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and Thomas Sully; silver by Paul Revere, John Coney, and Samuel Kirk; prints by John James Audubon and Nathaniel Currier; and ceramics ranging from early slipware to the fashionable Tucker porcelain of the 19th century.




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