Oil on paper mounted on Japan mounted on aluminum-faced aluminum honeycomb panel, unsigned.
26 1/2 x 22 1/2 in., 32 x 28 in. (frame).
Note: The sitter in this portrait is the artist's eldest daughter to survive infancy.
Exhibited: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Loan Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale and James Peale, Apri-May 1923.
Condition
Paper is mounted on Japan to an aluminum panel. Craquelure with some lifting. Scattered areas of inpainting, some in the face. Conservation report from 1988 available upon request.
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Mrs. Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Bryn Mawr, PA 1923.
Estate of Suzanne Colton Wilson (great, great granddaughter of the artist).
Sold Sotheby's, NY, May 28, 1987, Lot 56.
Property of an Important American Collection.