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A Boy, Possibly Of The Dupont Family watercolor on ivory miniature Private Collection Unknown, USA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
![]() | Brown, Miss J.c. 1812 Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN | ![]() Oval full frontal of a young woman with blue eyes and auburn-brown hair that is parted in the middle and cascades onto her shoulders in soft ringlets. Her face is heart-shaped and she is wearing a white dress with a soft rectangular widely-cut neckline. The dress is simply gathered at the waist by a light blue sash, approx. 2-3 inches wide. A... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Brown, Mr. 1812 Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN | ![]() Oval three-quarters right profile of a balding man who has collar-length brown hair growing fromaround his head. His eyes are brown, and he wears a white stock tie with a navy and white-flecked undercoat. His overcoat appears to be brown velvet and one button (buttoned-up) is visible. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | George Washington 1796 Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Mrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe) 1797 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Philippe Abraham Peticolas painted Mary Baldwin (1767-1808) in Winchester, Virginia, at age thirty, twelve or thirteen years after her marriage to Dr. Cornelius Baldwin. She was the daughter of Gerard and Margaret Briscoe, whose portraits were painted by Charles Peale Polk. Mary had ten children and was the grandmother of Mary Julia Baldwin, for whom... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Mrs. George Willig 1804 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() George Willig (1764-1851) was a German expatriate who, arriving in Philadelphia in 1794, took over the first music publishing company in America. He published sheet music through the 1840s, and his son, George Jr., ran a Baltimore branch of the firm from 1829 to 1879. Given Peticolass serious interest in music, it seems appropriate that he would... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Portrait Of A Gentleman 1798 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Portrait Of A Girl 1797 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Portrait Of A Member Of The Russell Family watercolor on ivory miniature Private Collection Unknown, USA | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Philippe Abraham Peticolas