Portrait of James W. DePeyster

Details

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
Portrait of James W. DePeyster
signed and dated 'C.W. Peale/painted 1798' (lower left)
oil on canvas laid down on board
29¾ x 25 in. (75.6 x 63.5 cm.)

Provenance

James W. DePeyster, New York, 1798.
By descent to the present owner, 1812-1998.

Literature

Diary of Charles Willson Peale, vol. XVI, unpublished, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale, unpublished, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Notes and Queries," Pennsylvania Magazine, 1901.
C.C. Sellers, "Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 42, pt. 1, 1952.
C.C. Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace: A Supplement to Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 59, pt. 3, 1969.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New York Historical Society, New Haven, Connecticut, 1974.
Berry-Hill Galleries, American Paintings VIII, New York, 1999, pp. 12-3, illustrated.

Exhibited

(Probably) New York, Van Cortlandt House, Colonial Dames of America, 1913.

Lot Essay

The present work depicts the uncle of the artist's wife, Elizabeth DePeyster Peale, with whom the Peale family lived in June 1798 at a country estate in Bloomingdale, a rural district on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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