Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter's father, Moses Hunter [1753-1798], Martinsburg, West Virginia;[1] by inheritance to his wife, Ann Stephen Dandridge Hunter [1752-1834], Martinsburg, and Hazelfield, near Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia;[2] by inheritance to her granddaughter, Ann Stephen Hunter Weeks [1819-1896, Mrs. Alfred Conrad Weeks], St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and Washington; by inheritance to her son, Beverley Warner Weeks [1862-1924], Fernandina, Florida; by inheritance to his daughters, Frances Washington Weeks [1891-1979], Washington, and Nancy Hunter Weeks [1898-1960]; gift 18 July 1960 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.
Exhibition History
- 1981
- Charles Peale Polk, 1776-1822: A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia; Dayton Art Institute; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 18 July 1981 - 15 October 1982, no. 118, repro.
- 1983
- Three American Families: A Tradition of Artistic Pursuit, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York; Whitney Museum at Fairfied County, Connecticut, 8 September 1983 - 11 January 1984.
- 1996
- The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996-1997, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
- 1966
- Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 36.
- 2011
- Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 313, repro.
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