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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
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Charles Willson Peale
American, 1741 - 1827
Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming, 1788
oil on canvas
Overall: 106 x 152.5 cm (41 3/4 x 60 1/16 in.) framed: 125.1 x 171.5 x 7 cm (49 1/4 x 67 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Gift of Morris Schapiro
1966.10.1
From the Tour: American Portraits of the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
Object 3 of 8

1929Loan Exhibition of 18th and Early 19th Century Furniture & Glass ... Portraits by Stuart, Peale and ... for the Benefit of The National Council of Girl Scouts, Inc., Exh. cat. American Art Galleries, N.Y., 1929, no. 834.
1952Sellers, Charles Coleman. Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale. Philadelphia, 1952: 119-120, no. 453, fig. 184.
1954Paintings by the Peale Family. Exh. cat. Cincinnati Art Museum, 1954: no. 19.
1958J. Hall Pleasants, A Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat. Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958-1959: 12.
1960American Painters of the South. Exh. cat. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1960: no. 21.
1965"Loan Collection, 1965," Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 23 (April 1965): 280.
1967The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1967: no. 37.
1969Sellers, Charles Coleman. Charles Willson Peale. New York, 1969: 231, fig. 51.
1970American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 86, repro.
1977Andrus, Lisa Fellows. Measure and Design in American Painting 1760-1860. New York and London, 1977: 118-121, fig. 42.
1980American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 205, repro.
1980Miller, Lillian B., ed. The Collected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. Microfiche ed. Millwood, N.Y. Fiche IIB/10; IIC, 164-165.
1980Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 10, 13, no. 9, color repro.
1981Williams 1981, color repro. 52-3, 71.
1982Hallam, John S. "Charles Willson Peale and Hogarth's Line of Beauty." Antiques 122 (November 1982): 1075-1076, 1078, fig. 7.
1983Miller, Lillian B., Sidney Hart, Toby A. Appel, and David C. Ward, eds. The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. 2 vols. to date. New Haven and London, 1983-1988: 1:529, 533-543, 636.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 375, no. 525, color repro.
1987Lovell, Margaretta M. "Reading Eighteenth-Century American Family Portraits: Social Images and Self-Images." Winterthur Portfolio 22, no. 4 (Winter 1987): 247, repro. 251, fig. 10.
1988Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. "Democratic Illusions." In Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Washington, 1988: 68, n. 15.
1988Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington (rev. ed.), 1988: 64, no. 9, color repro.
1991Prown, Jules David. "Charles Willson Peale in London." In New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale. Lillian B. Miller and David C. Ward, eds. Pittsburgh, 1991: 44.
1992American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 255, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 217, repro.
1995Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 120-128, color repro. 123.
1996American Art Review, Vol. VIII, No. 6, 1966, no. 142, repro.

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