General Washington at Princeton

c. 1790

Charles Peale Polk

Associated Names
Charles Peale Polk

Painter, American, 1767 - 1822

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William C. Freeman

  • Dimensions

    overall: 91.3 x 70.3 cm (35 15/16 x 27 11/16 in.)
    framed: 125.1 x 104.8 x 10.8 cm (49 1/4 x 41 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.13.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Margaret Freeman Buckingham [1857-1946], Washington, D.C., and Cornwall, Pennsylvania; her nephew, William Coleman Freeman [1881-1955], Cornwall, Pennsylvania;[1] gift 1947 to NGA.

[1] Freeman's dates are in The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography 47 (New York, 1965), 193.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Woodlawn Plantation, Woodlawn, Virginia, 1952, no catalogue.

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1952-1953.

1953

  • Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954.

1956

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Woodlawn Plantation, Woodlawn, Virginia, 1956-1965.

1965

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 1965-1981, 1982-2002.

1981

  • Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Dayton Art Institute; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1981-1982, no. 38, repro.

2002

  • West Point in the Making of America: Engineering, Exploration, and War, 1802-1918, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 2002-2004, no cat.

2006

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, Mount Vernon, Virginia, 2006-2008.

2009

  • The Price of Freedom, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 2009-2012, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1931

  • Morgan, John Hill, and Mantle Fielding. The Life Portraits of Washington and their Replicas. Philadelphia, 1931: 131-138.

1970

  • Hofstadter, Richard, et al. The American Republic. 2d ed. I. New Jersey, 1970.

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 90, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 210, repro.

1981

  • Charles Peale Polk, 1776-1822, A Limner and His Likenesses. Exh. cat. Traveling Exh., 1981-1982: 4-5, 35, no. 38, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 262, repro.

1995

  • Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 134, 136, repro. 137.

Inscriptions

on modern plywood backing, in black paint, in a later hand: No 32 Cs. Polk Painter.

Wikidata ID

Q20179767

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