Artist/Maker
William Foster Jones
After
Rembrandt Peale
(American, 1778 – 1860)
Depicted
William Tilghman
(1756 - 1827)
William Tilghman (1756–1827)
1841
Oil on canvas
Overall: 21 × 17 in. (53.3 × 43.2 cm)
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
1867.317
Tilghman, a distinguished jurist, was born in Talbot County, Maryland. He became chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1806 and held that position until his death twenty-one years later. This portrait is one of several copies of an original by Rembrandt Peale. Thomas J. Bryan, the donor, acquired Jones's copy from the sale of the effects of the Peale Museum in 1854.
SignedSigned and dated on stretcher: "Jo[n]es pinxt 1841"
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