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Materials:

oil on fabric

Size Notes:

CHARLES PEALE POLK (1767-1822), POSSIBLY IN COLLABORATION WITH CHARLES WILLSON PEALE (1741-1827) 23 x 19 in.

Description:

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Markings:

old pictures of the canvas before it was re-lined and stretchers replaced show the reverse with C P?k/ 1788 and the stretchers with paper label hand-inscribed General Washington/ C W Peale pinxit/ 1788?

Exhibited:

Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum & Library, Becoming George: The Life and Letters of George Washington, April 1999. Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, Historic Yellow Springs, General George Washington, 18-21 October 2002. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Celebrates the Constitution, June 2003, no. 6. Mount Vernon, Virginia, George Washington?s Mount Vernon, 2008-2012. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art of the Peales: Adaptations and Innovations, 2017-2018. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 7-November 16, 2020.

Literature:

Arthur North, ?$38 G.W. Picture May Bring 20G,? New York Daily News, 22 February 1956, pp. 4, 28. Frick Art Reference Library, ref. 121-20-a2. Carol Eaton Soltis, The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2017), pp. 137-138, fig. 3.10.

Provenance:

Scott & Fowles, Inc., New York, 1931 John McEntee Bowman (1875-1931), New York and Stonehedge, Greenwich, Connecticut, by purchase from above Sale, ?Hotel Biltmore Furnishings,? Cook Warehouse, New York City, December 1955 Michael Donohue, by purchase from above Graham Galleries, New York, 1965 Elinor Gordon, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1965 H. Richard Dietrich, Jr. (d. 2007), Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, by purchase from above