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George Washington (The Gadsden-Morris-Clarke Portrait)

Rembrandt Peale American, 1778-1860
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About the Artwork

George Washington (The Gadsden-Morris-Clarke Portrait)

1795

Rembrandt Peale

1778-1860

American

Unknown

Oil on canvas

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)

Paintings

American Art before 1950

Gift of Mrs. James Couzens

61.163

Public Domain

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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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Published References

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.

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