Collection Highlights
Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën... Volume 5, part 1 (deel 5, stuk 1)
Date:
1724-1726
Object Number:
LIB.Y.1724.V
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John De Peyster (1731-1807)
Object Number:
1894.1
Date:
1798
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 28 in. ( 76.2 x 71.1 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: at left: "C. W. Peale / painted 1798"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a merchant in New York, and the son of William De Peyster, Sr., and Margareta (Roosevelt) De Peyster. This portrait, a gift to the Society from his grandson, was painted in New York while Peale and his second wife, Elizabeth, a niece of John De Peyster, were visiting there in 1798. From the mid-1790s Peale's time was largely devoted to the Peale Museum in Philadelphia rather than to painting, but a number of portraits by him of his wife's relatives date from this time.
Bibliography:
Sellers, Charles Coleman, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 42, Part I, Philadelphia: 1952, pp. 63, 270.
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. The De Peyster Geneaology. Boston: Privately Printed, 1956, p. 63-4, fig. 12
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting, materials for a history. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959, pp. 47-58, II-IV.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p 207.
Miller, Lillian B., ed., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and his family. New Haven: Published for the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution by Yale University Press, c. 1983, p. 226.
Credit Line:
Gift of Christopher Champlin
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
