George Washington (The Gadsden-Morris-Clarke Portrait)

1795

Rembrandt Peale American, 1778-1860

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title George Washington (The Gadsden-Morris-Clarke Portrait)

Artwork Date 1795

Artist Rembrandt Peale

Life Dates 1778-1860

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 29 1/4 × 25 inches (74.3 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 37 3/4 × 33 1/8 × 3 inches (95.9 × 84.1 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Mrs. James Couzens

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 61.163

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Provenance

General Christopher Gadsden (Charleston, South Carolina, USA).
his grandson, Christopher Gadsden.
Miss Hume (Mrs. Frederick Wentworth Ford, niece of Christopher Gadsden Morris).
her daughter, Mrs. Lewis S. Jervey.
T. B. Clarke.
Knoedler and Co.
ca. 1930, Senator James Couzens (Washington, D.C. and Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. James Couzens (Detroit, Michigan, USA).
1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Early American Painting. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 1917, no. 71. [lent by Charles Henry Hart, attorney for Mrs. Lewis S. Jervey]

Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1923, no. 157.

Eisen, Gustavus A. Portraits of Washington, Vol. 2. 1932, p. 414 (ill.).

Antiques 80 (November 1961): p. 466 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 41, 1 (1961): pp. 3-4.

The Peale Family and Peale’s Baltimore Museum: 1814-1830. Exh. cat., The Peale Museum. Baltimore, 1965, no. 9.

The Peale Family, Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, p. 19, no. 157.

Detroit Institute of Arts. The Institute Collects. Detroit, 1965, p. 14.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Rembrandt Peale, George Washington (The Gadsden-Morris-Clarke Portrait), 1795, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James Couzens, 61.163.