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Portrait of Deborah Fox

Rembrandt Peale American, 1778-1860
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About the Artwork

Portrait of Deborah Fox

1837

Rembrandt Peale

1778-1860

American

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Overall: 37 × 33 × 3 inches (94 × 83.8 × 7.6 cm)

Paintings

American Art before 1950

Gift of Denny and Ann Hoag

2015.310

Public Domain

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Provenance

the sitter, Deborah Fox [August 24, 1789—August 22, 1862] married, in 1808, Joseph Smith Shotwell [1787-1848];
possibly by descent to their daughter, Esther F. Shotwell [1817-1887] married, in 1839, William Leggett Jenkins [1806-1903];
by descent to their daughter Phebe Shotwell Jenkins [October 2, 1831—February 1913], married Richard Palmer Bruff;
by descent to their niece, Maria Louise Jenkins [b. 1869] married, in 1895, Thomas Denny [b. 1869];
by descent to their daughter, Amey Donnell Denny, married W. Knowlton Hoag;
by descent to their son, Denny Hoag;
2015-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

attributed to Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of Deborah Fox, 1837, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Denny and Ann Hoag, 2015.310.

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Portrait of Deborah Fox
Portrait of Deborah Fox