Artist/Maker
Charles Willson Peale
(American, 1741 – 1827)
Depicted
Christiana Dally De Peyster
(1748 – 1813)
Mrs. William De Peyster Jr. (Christiana Dally, 1748-1813)
1798
Oil on canvas
Overall: 29 3/4 in. × 25 in. (75.6 × 63.5 cm)
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
1938.311
Christiana Dally was the mother-in-law of Charles Willson Peale and the second wife of William De Peyster Jr., whom she married in 1773. Peale also painted his father-in-law in 1798. This was the second pair of portraits he had painted for his in-laws, the earlier ones dating from 1792.
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