CHARLES WILLSON PEALE (1741-1827)

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$ 50 000
Auction dateClassic
19.01.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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USA, New York
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ID 1122305
Lot 502 | CHARLES WILLSON PEALE (1741-1827)
CHARLES WILLSON PEALE (1741-1827)

JOHN CUSTIS WILSON, JR.

oil on canvas

33 x 27 7⁄8 in. (oval)

Painted in 1791





Provenance

Probable line of descent:

John Custis Wilson (1761-1830) and his wife Margaret "Peggy" Custis Wilson (1763-1825), Westover, Somerset County, Maryland, parents of sitter

Possibly John Custis Wilson, Jr. (1784-1832), Westover, sitter

Dr. Henry Parke Custis Wilson (1801-1875), brother

Dr. Henry Parke Custis Wilson (1827-1897), son

Henrietta Chauncey (Wilson) Whiteley (1863-1908), daughter

Eleanor Custis Whiteley (Mrs. Edwin Nash Broyles) (1896-1984), Baltimore, daughter

Eleanor Custis Broyles (Mrs. Charles Alan Wright) (1924-2023), Austin, daughter



Literature

Charles Coleman Sellers, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale (Philadelphia, 1952), pp. 252, 328, no. 993, illustrated.
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