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