Collection Highlights
Matthew Perry
Date:
ca. 1855
Object Number:
PR.012.2.787
Medium:
Daguerreotype
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Mrs. William De Peyster, Jr. (1748-1813)
Object Number:
1938.311
Date:
1798
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 25 in. ( 75.6 x 63.5 cm )
Gallery Label:
Christiana Dally was the mother-in-law of Charles Willson Peale and the second wife of William De Peyster, Jr., whom she married in 1773. Peale also painted his father-in-law in 1798. This was the second pair of portraits he had painted for his in-laws, the earlier ones dating from 1792.
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. 68, 270.
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. The De Peyster Geneaology. Boston: Privately Printed, 1956, pp. 66-8, fig. 13
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 211.
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
