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Portrait of Raphaelle Peale

Previously attributed to Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741-1827) (Painter)
1st quarter 20th Century
watercolor on ivory
(18th and 19th Centuries )

Affidavits affixed to the back of this portrait and WAM 38.444 assert that these portraits were painted by Charles Willson Peale and depict the artist's son and daughter-in-law. However this seems unlikely. This miniature is more in the style of Raphaelle Peale. The frame are not original to the paintings.

Inscription

[Certified affidavit] On reverse: STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA : ss COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA : Be it remembered that on the 29th day of October, A.D. 1928, before me, the Subscriber, a Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania residing in Philadelphia, personally appeared AUGUSTIN R. PEALE, JR. of 2416 Spruce Street, who, being duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that he personally is attaching this affidavit on one miniature to a Portrait of RAHPALLE PEALE [sic], my Great-grandfather, which was painted by his father, CHARLES WILLSON PEALE and has been in our family for over one hundred years.
Deponent further states that this is the original and not a duplicate.
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me the day and year aforesaid. [Signed] AUGUSTIN R. PEALE, JR.; [Signed and dated] O.B. QUINTO Jan 20 / 1930 [Stamped] OSCAR B. QUINTO NOTARY PUBLIC Commission [illegible]

Provenance
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Peale family, Baltimore, until 1928; A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. J. Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
6/8/1964 Treatment other
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Geographies

USA (Place of Origin)

Measurements

Overall (excluding frame) H: 3 11/16 × W: 3 1/16 in. (9.3 × 7.7 cm)
Framed H: 5 3/8 × W: 4 5/8 in. (13.7 × 11.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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38.443

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Image for Portrait of Mrs. Raphaelle Peale (Margaret McGlathery Peale) (?)

Portrait of Mrs. Raphaelle Peale (Margaret McGlathery Peale) (?)

Previously attributed to Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741-1827)
1st quarter 20th Century
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