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Thomas Willing 1782 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. Charles Willson Peale 1816 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | Anonymous | ||
Head Of Washington about 1795–98 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | 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. | GA | Anonymous | |
Nathaniel Gorham about 1793 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | Anonymous | ||
Judge John Lowell about 1782 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | Anonymous | ||
Timothy Matlack about 1790 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | 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... | GA | Anonymous | |
Capt. John Gassoway 1790 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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... | GA | Anonymous | |
Colonel John Cox 1778 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. James Smith And Grandson 1776 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Matthias And Thomas Bordley 1767 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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... | GA | Anonymous |
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