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Thomas Willing

1782
oil on canvas
49 1/2 x 39 3/4 in. (125.7 x 101 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mrs. Charles Willson Peale

1816
oil on canvas
61.59 x 51.43 cm (24 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Head Of Washington

about 1795–98
Oil on panel
19.05 x 15.24 cm (7 1/2 x 6 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
72 when Washington was a colonel in the colonial militia, and ending in 1795, when he was midway through his second term as president. The "Head of Washington" is one of Peale's replicas of the canvas he painted in 1795; the original is in the New-York Historical Society.
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Nathaniel Gorham

about 1793
oil on canvas mounted on Masonite
66.04 x 56.2 cm (26 x 22 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Judge John Lowell

about 1782
Watercolor on ivory with hair
3.81 x 3.17 cm (1 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Timothy Matlack

about 1790
oil on canvas
121.92 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Peale's portrait of Timothy Matlack honors the sitter's distinguished public career. A radical Whig, Matlack played an active role in Revolutionary events in and around Philadelphia: he was the engrosser who hand-lettered the original Declaration of Independence, he led a rifle battalion at Trenton and Princeton, and he was elected to the Continental...
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Capt. John Gassoway

1790
watercolor on ivory
sight 1 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (3.8 x 2.9 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Captain John Gassoway (1754-1820), also spelled Gassaway, was wounded and taken prisoner at the disastrous Battle of Camden, fought by Revolutionary forces in South Carolina in 1780. Branches of his family occupy a prominent role in the history of South Carolina, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Conservation of this miniature was made possible...
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Colonel John Cox

1778
watercolor on ivory
sight 1 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (3.7 x 3.0 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Mrs. James Smith And Grandson

1776
oil on canvas
36 3/8 x 29 1/4 in. (92.4 x 74.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Matthias And Thomas Bordley

1767
watercolor on ivory
3 5/8 x 4 1/8 in. (9.2 x 10.5 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
l in the background. Bordley had paid to send Peale to study in England, and during this trip the artist painted this miniature to give to the boys’ parents in Maryland. An inscription on the back indicates that Matthias was nine and his brother Thomas twelve years old when this was painted. Although Matthias would live to adulthood, Thomas died in...
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