Portrait of Deborah Fox, 1837

  • Rembrandt Peale, American, 1778-1860

Oil on canvas

  • Overall: 37 × 33 × 3 inches (94 × 83.8 × 7.6 cm)

Gift of Denny and Ann Hoag

2015.310

the sitter, Deborah Fox [August 24, 1789—August 22, 1862] married, in 1808, Joseph Smith Shotwell [1787-1848]

possibly by descent to their daughter, Esther F. Shotwell [1817-1887] married, in 1839, William Leggett Jenkins [1806-1903]

by descent to their daughter Phebe Shotwell Jenkins [October 2, 1831—February 1913], married Richard Palmer Bruff

by descent to their niece, Maria Louise Jenkins [b. 1869] married, in 1895, Thomas Denny [b. 1869]

by descent to their daughter, Amey Donnell Denny, married W. Knowlton Hoag

by descent to their son, Denny Hoag

2015-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

attributed to Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of Deborah Fox, 1837, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Denny and Ann Hoag, 2015.310.