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Elizabeth Oliver

Elizabeth Oliver Oil on canvas
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Oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, circa 1758

43.5 cm x 35.5 cm; in frame 56 cm x 49 cm x 6.3 cm

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This portrait of Elizabeth Oliver, daughter of Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Andrew Oliver and Mary Sanford, was completed by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) around 1758.

Elizabeth Oliver was born in 1739 to Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Andrew Oliver and his second wife, Mary Sanford. She married Edward Lyde, a Boston merchant, in 1772. A loyalist couple, they removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then to England during the Revolution. Elizabeth Oliver died in New York City in 1820.