About the Artwork
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
ca. 1769
John Beale Bordley
1727-1804
American
Unknown
Oil on panel
Unframed: 10 3/4 × 13 1/8 inches (27.3 × 33.3 cm) Framed: 13 1/2 × 16 1/8 × 2 inches (34.3 × 41 × 5.1 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
52.163
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Provenance
Mrs. James Gibson (the artist's daughter). Maria J. Peale, [niece of Charles Willson Peale] or Mary Jane Peale [his grand-daughter]
Rubens H. Peale, to 1925. Mary H. Sully (Mrs. Albert W.), 1925-41. William Macbeth, Inc., New York. DIA in 1952.
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The Mary H. Sully Collection of American Paintings. Exh. cat., John Levy Galleries. New York, 1941, no. 2.
Paintings by the Peale Family. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, 1954, no. 43.
The Peale Family, Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, p. 72, no. 70 (ill.).
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1. New York, 1991, p. 265 (ill.).
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John Beale Bordley, Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, ca. 1769, oil on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 52.163.
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