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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 | |
Thomas Willing 1782 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Rachel Brewer Peale And Baby Eleanor 1790 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Rachel Brewer Peale ca. 1791 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Portrait Of Mrs. Thomas Russell c. 1784 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Thomas Russell (1741-1786) ordered two pairs of portraits of himself and his wife, nee Ann Thomas (b. 1751), during a trip to Philadelphia from Cecil County, Maryland around 1784. At that time, Peale, his patron's exact contemporary, dominated the local portrait market. Because the Russells enjoyed greater financial and material prosperity in the... | GA | Anonymous | |
Portrait Of Mr. Thomas Russell c. 1784 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH | Thomas Russell (1741-1786) ordered two pairs of portraits of himself and his wife, nee Ann Thomas (b. 1751), during a trip to Philadelphia from Cecil County, Maryland around 1784. At that time, Peale, his patron's exact contemporary, dominated the local portrait market. Because the Russells enjoyed greater financial and material prosperity in the... | GA | Anonymous | |
Portrait Of A Woman ca. 1775 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Portrait Of A Lady ca. 1778 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1775 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Nathaniel Gorham about 1793 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. Michael Taney (Monica Brooke) ca. 1770 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. Joseph Donaldson (Frances Johnston) 1776 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) And John Nicholson, Jr. 1790 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | GA | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. James Smith And Grandson 1776 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. Charles Willson Peale 1816 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | 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 | |
Margaret Strachan (Mrs. Thomas Harwood) ca. 1771 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Major General Nathanael Greene 1778 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Judge John Lowell about 1782 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | Anonymous | ||
Joseph Donaldson 1776 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
John Nicholson 1790 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | GA | Anonymous | ||
James Peale (1) ca. 1788 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
James Peale 1822 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | 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 | |
George Washington ca. 1777 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
General William North 1785 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | GA | Anonymous | ||
General Richard Montgomery ca. 1784–86 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Elie Williams 1789 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | ||
Colonel John Cox 1778 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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 | |
Belfield Farm c. 1816 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | GA | Anonymous | ||
Anthony Butler 1782 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous |
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