contents of the Tilden Trust and Astor Library to form the New York Public Library. The New York Public Library lent it to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1938 for their John Singleton Copley exhibition. It is listed as no. 7 in the catalogue. In turn the New York Public Library auctioned off the painting as lot 4 at Sotheby's on November 30, 2005. The painting was bought by Crystal Bridges Museum. At the same auction, the Crystal Bridges Museum also bought other works that once resided in the collections of the Lenox Library and New York Public Library, including Portrait of Marquis de Lafayette and Gilbert Stuart's George Washington (The Constable-Hamilton Portrait). Related works Earlier in 1757, Theodore Atkinson Jr. had commissioned John Singleton Copley to paint his portrait. When Atkinson Jr. was alive, his portrait and this 1765 portrait of Frances Deering Wentworth likely hung together. In April 2017, the paintings were reunited and displayed together for the first time in over a century at the Crystal Bridges Art Museum. References Portraits of women Paintings by John Singleton Copley Squirrels in art 18th-century portraits 1760s paintings Collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Paintings of people