American School 19th Century George Washington 19th Century George Washington Bears signature Bass Otis and dated indistinctly on the stretcher Oil on canvas 26 5/8 x 21 3/4 inches Provenance: Purportedly Robert Gilmor Towson, MD A typed label on the back of the frame suggests that this work was painted by Bass Otis after a work by Charles Willson Peale and that it was owned by Robert Gilmor [sic] of Towson, Maryland. Lance Humphries has suggested that the collector may have been not Robert Gilmor Jr. (1774-1848) the well-known collector of 19th century American painting, but his nephew Robert Gilmor III, who built Glen Ellen, the first Gothic Revival house in the United States, designed by Alexander Jackson Davis The present work is related, not to a portrait by Charles Willson Peale but to a miniature of George Washington painted around 1794 by Walter Robertson at the request of Washington's step-granddaughter, Martha Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854) on the occasion of her marriage to Thomas Peter (1769-1834). The English artist Robert Field (1769-1815, arrived in Baltimore in 1794) created a stipple engraving of the Robertson portrait on August 1, 1795. The engraving, with embellishments by the Irish engraver John James Barralet was published in Philadelphia and New York. A copy of this work survives in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession no. 24.90.131). Since the palette in the present work is less subdued than that in the miniature portrait, it is conceivable that it may have been painted from the engraving. We extend our thanks to Erin Kuykendall, Curator, Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, Washington, DC, and Lance Humphries, who is researching the collection of Robert Gilmor Jr., in anticipation of a publication, for their kind assistance in cataloguing the present work. Walter Robertson George Washington, 1794 Watercolor on ivory, 3 1/8 x 2 7 16 inches Courtesy, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden, Washington, D.C. C Sold to Benefit the Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation
Frame rubbing. Visible stretcher marks. Surface grime. Touches of inpaint at the top center edge. No further restoration visible under UV light.
American School 19th Century George Washington 19th Century George Washington Bears signature Bass Otis and dated indistinctly on the stretcher Oil on canvas 26 5/8 x 21 3/4 inches Provenance: Purportedly Robert Gilmor Towson, MD A typed label on the back of the frame suggests that this work was painted by Bass Otis after a work by Charles Willson Peale and that it was owned by Robert Gilmor [sic] of Towson, Maryland. Lance Humphries has suggested that the collector may have been not Robert Gilmor Jr. (1774-1848) the well-known collector of 19th century American painting, but his nephew Robert Gilmor III, who built Glen Ellen, the first Gothic Revival house in the United States, designed by Alexander Jackson Davis The present work is related, not to a portrait by Charles Willson Peale but to a miniature of George Washington painted around 1794 by Walter Robertson at the request of Washington's step-granddaughter, Martha Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854) on the occasion of her marriage to Thomas Peter (1769-1834). The English artist Robert Field (1769-1815, arrived in Baltimore in 1794) created a stipple engraving of the Robertson portrait on August 1, 1795. The engraving, with embellishments by the Irish engraver John James Barralet was published in Philadelphia and New York. A copy of this work survives in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession no. 24.90.131). Since the palette in the present work is less subdued than that in the miniature portrait, it is conceivable that it may have been painted from the engraving. We extend our thanks to Erin Kuykendall, Curator, Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, Washington, DC, and Lance Humphries, who is researching the collection of Robert Gilmor Jr., in anticipation of a publication, for their kind assistance in cataloguing the present work. Walter Robertson George Washington, 1794 Watercolor on ivory, 3 1/8 x 2 7 16 inches Courtesy, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden, Washington, D.C. C Sold to Benefit the Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation
Frame rubbing. Visible stretcher marks. Surface grime. Touches of inpaint at the top center edge. No further restoration visible under UV light.
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