Artist/Maker
Rembrandt Peale
(American, 1778 – 1860)
Depicted
Joseph Priestley
(1733 - 1804)
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804)
1801
Oil on canvas
Overall: 21 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (54.6 × 47 cm)
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
1867.307
This portrait study of the clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestley is related to a completed portrait of the subject in the American Philosophical Society. Peale's study of Priestley remained in his possession and passed into the collection of the Peale Museum; it was purchased by the donor at the sale of that museum in 1854.
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