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Self Portrait

Rembrandt Peale American, 1778-1860
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About the Artwork

Self Portrait

1828

Rembrandt Peale

1778-1860

American

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 19 × 14 1/2 inches (48.3 × 36.8 cm) Framed: 25 5/16 × 20 9/16 × 3 1/2 inches (64.3 × 52.2 × 8.9 cm)

Paintings

American Art before 1950

Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund

45.469

Public Domain

Markings

Inscribed, on verso: Rembrandt Peale painted by himself Boston 1828 for his wife Eleanor Peale

Provenance

the artist.
probably his daughter, Eleanor Peale Jacobs.
probably her daughter.
Mary Clare Jacobs Wirgman;
1923, her son, Grafton B. Wirgman (East Orange, New Jersey, USA).
probably his daughter, Carol Wirgman (East Orange, New Jersey, USA).
1941, James Graham & Sons (New York, New York, USA).
1945, dealer, Victor Spark (New York, New York, USA);
1945-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the Late Gilbert Stuart, Esq. Exh. cat., Boston Anthenaeum. Boston, 1828, no. 204.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1923, p. 209, no. 261.

An Exhibition of American Paintings by Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Raphaelle Peale, Mrs. Rembrandt Peale, James Peale. Exh. cat., 1941, no. 6.

Bulletin of the DIA 25, 3 (1946): pp. 53-54 (ill.).

Four Centuries of American Art. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis, 1963, no. 105.

The Peale Family and Peale’s Baltimore Museum: 1814-1830. Exh. cat., The Peale Museum. Baltimore, 1965, no. 27.

The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, pp. 101-102, no. 136.

Smithsonian 10 (April 1975): p. 70 (ill.).

Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976. Exh. cat., Albright-Knox Gallery. Buffalo, 1976, no. 5.

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News/Detroit Free Press (April 18, 1982): p. 7 (ill.).

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News (April 14, 1985): p. 13 (ill.).

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 194 (ill.).

Fink, L.M. “Rembrandt Peale in Paris.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 110, 1 (January 1986): p. 89 (fig. 38).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Rembrandt Peale, Self Portrait, 1828, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 45.469.

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