Portrait of Two Children

Several portraits and portrait miniatures by this artist painted in the mid-1820s through the 1840s are in museum collections, were included in museum exhibitions or were illustrated in Antiques. Museum collections include the Western Reserve Historical Society, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Deshler-Morris House, and exhibitions include Loan Exhibition of Historical and Contemporary Portraits (Lancaster, 1912) and Portraits in Tennessee Checklist (Colonial Dames of Nashville, 1966); see also Antiques (July 1966 advertisement, p. 19). A portrait of Robert and Catherine Jacobs sold Christie's New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, 23 October 1993, lot 56.

According to the 1912 Lancaster Loan Exhibition catalogue, Eliot Gregory was an English itinerant portrait painter who came to America circa 1825 and established a portrait studio in Churchtown by 1842. He is known to have worked in the Southeastern Pennsylvania area surrounding Lancaster during this time.