Add to Collection

Add this item to an existing or new collection.
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.146
People
Charles Willson Peale, American (Chester, Queen Anne's County, MD 1741 - 1827 Philadelphia, PA)
Title
Thomas McKean (1735-1817)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1781-1782
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230327

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
57.2 x 48.1 cm (22 1/2 x 18 15/16 in.)
framed: 74.6 x 64.5 x 8.9 cm (29 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on verso: No. 430/Hannah Mee Horner/Restorer/Philadelphia PA/June 27th 1925/Cleaned retouched/varnished; Thomas McKean/Chief Justice of the/Supreme Court of / Pennsylvania/from the 28th day of July 1777/until November 1st 1799

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Willson Peale, Philadelphia; his gift to the McKean family, 1797; descended in the family; purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1920; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.146
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS.

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • "A List of Portraits", The Freeman's Journal: or, the North-American Intelligencer (Philadelphia, October 13, 1784), Vol. IV, No. CLXXXII, p. 3
  • Charles Willson Peale, An Historical Catalogue of Peale's Collection of Paintings, Richard Folwell (Philadelphia, 1795), p. 4, no. 5
  • Charles Coleman Sellers, "Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale", Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1952), vol. 42, pt. 1, pp. 136-137, no. 180, ill., pl. 312
  • Alfred Mongin, "Forgotten Founding Fathers", The Magazine Antiques (October 1965), vol. LXXXVIII, pp. 516-521, p. 520, ill. p. 519
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 238
  • Lillian B. Miller, Sidney Hart, and Toby A. Appel, ed., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family, vol. I: Charles Willson Peale: Artist in Revolutionary America, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1983), p. 635
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 28, 385, 393, cat. 349, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Peale's Museum, Peale's Museum, Philadelphia, 01/01/1784 - 12/31/1797

Related Articles

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu