CHARLES PEALE POLK (1767-1822)

Lot 342
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ID 696246
Lot 342 | CHARLES PEALE POLK (1767-1822)
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$ 350 000 – 450 000
CHARLES PEALE POLK (1767-1822)

GEORGE WASHINGTON AT PRINCETON

recorded as signed and dated on reverse Cs Polk Painter A.D. 1790 

oil on canvas

36 x 29 1⁄8 in.







Provenance

Possibly Clement Biddle (1740-1817) or Jonathan Meredith (1740-1811)

Catherine Meredith Biddle (1865-1931) and Sarah Caldwell Biddle (1866-1930) (sisters), Philadelphia, by inheritance from an uncle in the Biddle or Meredith families

Reginald Roberts Jacobs (1892-1969), Buenos Aires, Argentina and Haverford, Pennsylvania

Denholm Muir Jacobs (b. 1922), Massachusetts and Northeast Harbor, Maine, son

Vose Galleries, Boston

Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1971

Ernest Joresco, Chicago

James G. Flannery, Barrington Hills, Illinois

Thence by descent in the family







Literature

John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas (Philadelphia, 1931), p. 135, no. 12.  

Tillou Gallery, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (January 1971), p. 25. 

The Frick Art Reference Library, 121-20-g. 

Linda Crocker Simmons, Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and His Likenesses (Washington D.C., 1981), p. 28, no. 16. 





Exhibited

Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and His Likenesses, 18 July-6 September 1981.  
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