About the Artwork
Christopher Hughes
1789
Charles Willson Peale
1741-1827
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 38 7/8 × 27 1/8 inches (98.7 × 68.9 cm) Framed: 40 1/2 × 32 × 1 3/4 inches (102.9 × 81.3 × 4.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
2010.179
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, center left, on banister: CWPeale paint: 1789
Inscribed, center left, on banister: CWPeale paint: 1789 Inscribed, on book in hand: Young's | Night | Thoughts
Provenance
Christopher Hughes and Margaret (Peggy) Sanderson Hughes
their daughter, Louisa Hughes
her son, Christopher Hughes Armistead (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
his daughter, Agnes Gordon Armistead (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
her son, Alexander Gordon, Jr.
his son, Alexander Gordon, III
his daughters, Mrs. Agnes Armistead (Gordon) Stark and Mrs. Ann McKim (Gordon) Phillips. 2010-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Charles Willson Peale, Christopher Hughes, 1789, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 2010.179.
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