Museum Object Number1959.0160 A |
Painting (Portrait)
Dr. Benjamin Rush
Paintings
Gift of Mrs. Julia B. Henry
Charles Willson Peale (Artist)
04/15/1741
02/22/1827
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1783 and 1786 (1783-1786)
1. Signature; Left center above sitter's elbow; C. WPeale/ pinx: 1783
2. Signature; Lower left corner below table; C WPeale/ pinx: 1786
Portrait
Oil paint; Canvas
Painted
49.875 (H) , 39.875 (W)
126.683 (H) , 101.282 (W)
H at proper right stretcher. W at bottom stretcher.
Text available soon.
[Book] Polgar, Paul J. 2019 Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement.
• Published: p. 59, fig. 3.
[Book] Cooper, Wendy A. 2002 An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum.
• Published: fig. 23, pp. 109-10.
[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published: cat. no. 37, pp. 70-71.
[Article] Sellers, Charles Coleman. 1952 "Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 42 (1)
• Published: no. 759, p. 187, and ill. as no. 88, p. 294.
[Book] Miller, Lillian B. 1996 The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870.
• See pp. 126-7.
[Book] Apel, Thomas A. 2016 Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic.
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[Article] Brown, Michael K. 2007 Piecing Together the Past: Recent Research on the American China Manufactory, 1769-1772. Ceramics in America.
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[Book] Glenn, John C. 2007 His Sacred Honor: Judge Richard Stockton a Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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