Artist/Maker
Charles Willson Peale
(American, 1741 – 1827)
Depicted
John Watts De Peyster
(American, 1821 – 1907)
John De Peyster (1731–1807)
1798
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 × 28 in. (76.2 × 71.1 cm)
Gift of Christopher Champlin
1894.1
The subject was a merchant in New York, and the son of William De Peyster, Sr., and Margareta (Roosevelt) De Peyster. This portrait, a gift to the Society from his grandson, was painted in New York while Peale and his second wife, Elizabeth, a niece of John De Peyster, were visiting there in 1798. From the mid-1790s Peale's time was largely devoted to the Peale Museum in Philadelphia rather than to painting, but a number of portraits by him of his wife's relatives date from this time.
SignedSigned and dated at left: "C. W. Peale / painted 1798"
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