Belfield Farm

Charles Willson Peale American, 1741-1827
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Belfield Farm

ca. 1816

Charles Willson Peale

1741-1827

American

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 10 3/4 × 15 5/8 inches (27.3 × 39.7 cm) Framed: 14 5/8 × 19 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (37.1 × 49.5 × 5.7 cm)

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American Art before 1950

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt

63.238

This work is in the public domain.

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possibly the artist's grandson. Augustus Runyon Peale. Ralph L. Parkinson. Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)

1963-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

The Institute Collects: A Selective Survey of Additions to the Collections, 1959-1964. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964 (pl. 14).

Woods, Willis F., ed. Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 85.

Sellers, Charles Coleman. Charles Willson Peale: A Biography. New York, 1969, pp. 41-42, no. S 109 (ill.).

The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, pp. 20, 72, no. 66.

Nygren, Edward, et al. View and Visions: American Landscape Before 1830. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, CT, 1986, pp. 278-280.

Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I. New York, 1991, pp. 149, 151-152, no. 66 (ill.).

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Charles Willson Peale, Belfield Farm, ca. 1816, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt, 63.238.

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