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GEORGE WASHINGTON (THE GADSDEN-MORRIS-CLARKE PORTRAIT)
Rembrandt Peale(American, 1778-1860)
- Date
- 1795
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 29 1/4 x 25 in. (74.3 x 63.5 cm) Framed: 37 3/4 x 33 1/8 x 3 in.
- Department
- American Art before 1950
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs. James Couzens
- Accession No.
- 61.163
- Provenance
- Formerly in the collection of: General Christopher Gadsden, Charleston, S. C. Christopher Gadsden, his grandson Miss Hume (Mrs. Frederick Wentworth Ford, niece of Christopher Gadsden Morris) Mrs. Lewis S. Jervey, daughter of Mrs. Ford T. B. Clarke Knoedler and Co. Senator James Couzens, Washington, D.C., and Detroit, ca. 1930; Mrs. James Couzens, Detroit. Acquired in 1961.
- Keywords
- canvas, oil, portrait, bust
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