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 | Still Life With Cake (1) 1822 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Still Life With Peaches 1821 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | 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 |
 | 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 (3) ca. 1805 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | This man’s elegantly knotted tie clearly shows Raphaelle Peale’s deft brushwork. Although we do not know who the sitter was, he was a man “of means” who could afford fine clothes and the services of one of America’s leading miniaturists. | GA | Anonymous |
 | Portrait Of A Gentleman With Initials G. D. ca. 1805 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | The intertwined initials “GD” on the back of this locket are the only clue to the gentleman’s identity. His hair reflects the change at the end of the eighteenth century, when many younger men rejected wigs in favor of natural hair. The short top and curled sides of this sitter’s hair were styled to accommodate a top hat. | GA | Anonymous |
 | Robert Oliphant 1799 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Robert Oliphant was the oldest son of William Oliphant, a wealthy Philadelphia landowner. Robert’s sister had her miniature painted by James Peale in 1795. Some time after this miniature was painted, Robert moved to Norfolk, Virginia, but his whereabouts after that are unknown. Both miniatures descended in his sister Elizabeth’s family until they... | GA | Anonymous |
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