Artist/Maker
Charles Willson Peale
(American, 1741 – 1827)
Depicted
John Beale Bordley
(American, 1727 – 1804)
John Beale Bordley (1727–1804)
ca. 1790
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 23 1/2 × 20 in. (59.7 × 50.8 cm)
Framed: 26 1/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (66.7 × 56.5 × 6.4 cm)
Framed: 26 1/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (66.7 × 56.5 × 6.4 cm)
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
1867.300
John Beale Bordley, a native of Maryland, served as a judge of the provincial court and later the admiralty court of the province. Upon inheriting a large estate, he devoted the rest of his life to agriculture. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1783, and was one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture two years later. Throughout his life he was one of Charles W. Peale's best friends and benefactors.
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