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Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr.
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: "CWPeale/Painted 1790."
Provenance
Hannah Duncan Nicholson, 1790; by descent to John Nicholson, Jr. and wife, Anne Galbreth, 1823; by descent to Frances Sophia Duncan Nicholson (John Jr.’s daughter) and husband, Hon. Robert N. Ogden, 1848; by descent to the Ogden family 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Jr., Chicago, by 1952; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Washington, DC, National Portrait Gallery, Charles Willson Peale and His World, Nov. 4, 1982–Jan. 2, 1983, no. 158, cat. by Edgar P. Richardson, p. 216 ill.; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Feb. 11–Apr. 3, 1982; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 6–Sept. 4, 1983.
Publications
Charles Coleman Sellers, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 59 (1969), p. 74. Edgar P. Richardson, (Abrams, Inc., 1982), cat. no. 158, p. 216 ill. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827)
- Date
- 1790
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.5 × 69.3 cm (36 × 27 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison
- Accession no.
- 1952.1001
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