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Source Description
Affidavits affixed to the back of this portrait and WAM 38.443 assert that these portraits were painted by Charles Willson Peale and depict the artist's son and daughter-in-law. However this seems unlikely. The companion piece to this portrait is closer in style to the work of Raphaelle Peale, but this portait of a woman in a plain muslin dress may be by a different hand. The frames are not original to the paintings.
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Document identity
localId
7785
label
Portrait of Mrs. Raphaelle Peale (Margaret McGlathery Peale) (?)
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object
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2
Source metadata
id
7785
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Portrait of Mrs. Raphaelle Peale (Margaret McGlathery Peale) (?)
description
Affidavits affixed to the back of this portrait and WAM 38.443 assert that these portraits were painted by Charles Willson Peale and depict the artist's son and daughter-in-law. However this seems unlikely. The companion piece to this portrait is closer in style to the work of Raphaelle Peale, but this portait of a woman in a plain muslin dress may be by a different hand. The frames are not original to the paintings.
provenance
Peale family, Baltimore, until 1928; A.J. Fink, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
date
1st quarter 20th Century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Miniatures
miniatures (paintings)
portraits
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Overall (excluding frame) H: 3 9/16 × W:3 1/16 in. (9 × 7.7 cm); Framed H: 5 3/8 × W: 4 5/8 in. (13.6 × 11.7 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Certified affidavit] On reverse: STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA : ss COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA : Be it remembered that on the 29th day of October
A.D. 1928
before me
the Subscriber
a Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania residing in Philadelphia
personally appeared AUGUSTIN R. PEALE
JR. of 2416 Spruce Street
who
being duly sworn according to law
did depose and say that he personally is attaching this affidavit on one miniature to a Portrait of MARTHA McGLATHERY PEALE
wife of Raphalle Peale
which was painted by CHARLES WILLSON PEALE and has been in our family for over one hundred years.Deponent further states that this is the original and not a duplicate.SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me the day and year aforesaid. [Signed] AUGUSTIN R. PEALE
JR.; [Signed and dated] O.B. QUINTO Jan 20 / 1930 [Stamped] OSCAR B. QUINTO NOTARY PUBLIC Commission [illegible]
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watercolor on ivory
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2579
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EAN
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none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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11b2770ebd57c3e2
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no
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no
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2
type
photo
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7f5b80735facaf7b
hasOcr
no
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no