Portrait #355

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Unknown Gentleman W32
  • Artist:Peale, Charles Willson 1741-1827
  • Date Created:ca. 1780
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:1 9/16" x 1 3/16"
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:2/22/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Frame is gold plated on copper. Old, but possibly not original. Oval of a man in a light blue jacket with 2 covered buttons visible. The lapels have a slightly frayed quality. His shirt is buttoned at the neck and appears to have some tatted decoration. His hair is combed back and falls in curls at his shoulder.
  • History:Painted probably in Philadelphia area. Exhbited Cheekwood 1991 / Cheekwood 1995 / Huntsville 1996/ Gibbes 2000. Illus. Huntsville Catalog