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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.145
People
Charles Willson Peale, American (Chester, Queen Anne's County, MD 1741 - 1827 Philadelphia, PA)
Title
Susanna Steuart Tilghman (Mrs. James Tilghman) (1749-1774)
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of a Woman
Former Title: Portrait of an Unknown Lady of Maryland
Former Title: Portrait of Mrs. James Makubin
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1775
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230023

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.4 x 69.5 cm (36 x 27 3/8 in.)
framed: 106.7 x 83.8 x 6.4 cm (42 x 33 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: C. W. Peale/pinx, 1775

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Steuart, Baltimore, brother of the sitter, by 1792; to his son Gen. George H. Steuart, Sr.; to his grandson James E. Steuart, Annapolis, MD; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop New York, NY, 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
1943.145
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Helen Comstock, "A Maryland Subject by C. W. Peale", The Magazine Antiques (1945), vol. XLVIII, no. 3, ill. p. 164
  • "Paintings from the Winthrop Collection", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1945), vol. X, no. 3, pp. 98-103, ill. p. 98
  • Charles Coleman Sellers, "Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale", Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1952), vol. 42, pt. 1, no. 1017, fig. 83
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), pp. 106-107, cat. 80, ill.
  • John S. Hallam, "Charles Willson Peale and Hogarth's line of beauty", The Magazine Antiques (New York, November 1982), vol. CXXII, no 5, pp. 1074-1079, p. 1075, fig. 6
  • 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, 383-84, cat. 347, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
  • 32Q: 2410 South Arcade, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/15/2016 - 12/19/2018

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