the sitter's family. 1942, John Levy Galleries (New York, New York, USA). 1942-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
General William North, 1785
- Charles Willson Peale, American, 1741-1827
Oil on canvas
- Unframed: 23 × 19 inches (58.4 × 48.3 cm)
- 31 1/8 × 27 1/8 × 3 15/16 inches (79.1 × 68.9 × 10 cm)
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
42.117
On View
- American: Whitby Hall, Drawing Room W264
Department
American Art before 1950
Details
Burroughs, Clyde H. “Paintings by the Peales.” Bulletin of the DIA 23, 7 (April 1944):p. 54 (ill.). Sellers, Charles Coleman. “Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 42, 1 (1952): p. 152, no. 598. Elam, Charles H., Charles Coleman Sellers, E. Grosvenor Paine, and Edward H. Dwight. The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, p. 59, no. 43 (ill.). Steuben, Secret Aid for the Americans.Exh. cat., Foundation for Prussian Cultural Property. Berlin, 1981, no. A-120. Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I. New York, 1991, pp. 149-150 (ill.).
Charles Willson Peale, General William North, 1785, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 42.117.