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![]() | A Dessert 1814 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Catherine Douglas Dickson ca. 1818 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | George Fisher ca. 1795 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() George Fisher’s father was a Quaker who founded the borough of Middletown in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1755. Located on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, the settlement lay nine miles below Harrisburg. Fisher passed the bar in 1787 and practiced law there until he retired to Peneford Farm, in Middletown. He died at the age of... | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Jonathan Jones Wheeler 1812 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Jonathan Jones Wheeler (1792-1846) was born in Philadelphia, the son of Samuel Wheeler and Elizabeth Jones. His miniature portrait shows a young man brimming with confidence. The frame, which has an inner band resembling a traditional locket, allows the painting to be hung on a wall rather than worn on the body, evidence of the changing role of... | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Melons And Morning Glories 1813 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Raphaelle Peale's father, Charles Willson Peale, urged his son to paint portraits instead of still lifes, which brought an artist less prestige and fewer commissions. But still lifes suited Raphaelle, who also worked as a taxidermist. He painted this melon as if it were a body opened up for examination, detailing its fluids and flesh so that the... | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Mrs. John Montgomery (Sarah Diemer) 1800 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | P. F. Ronbeau 1821 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Peter Gilman Odlin ca. 1805 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Portrait Of A Child ca. 1800 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() This is thought to be a painting of a child known only as “Miss Borrie.” The artist applied touches of red to the girl’s lips and cheeks in this otherwise subdued painting to emphasize her smiling expression. | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Portrait Of A Gentleman 1799 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous |
- Raphaelle Peale