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English: George Washington at Princeton.
Artist
Charles Peale Polk  (1767–1822)  wikidata:Q2959962
 
Charles Peale Polk
Alternative names
Polk; chas peale polk
Description American painter
Date of birth/death 17 March 1767 Edit this at Wikidata 6 May 1822 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Maryland Warsaw
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artist QS:P170,Q2959962
After Charles Willson Peale  (1741–1827)  wikidata:Q454945
 
After Charles Willson Peale
Description American portrait painter
Date of birth/death 15 April 1741 Edit this at Wikidata 22 February 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death St. Paul's Parish, Maryland Philadelphia
Work location
East coast of North America
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q454945
Title
English: George Washington at Princeton.
Date circa 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Object history

Possibly Clement Biddle (1740-1817) or Jonathan Meredith (1740-1811) Catherine Meredith Biddle (1865-1931) and Sarah Caldwell Biddle (1866-1930) (sisters), Philadelphia, by inheritance from an uncle in the Biddle or Meredith families Reginald Roberts Jacobs (1892-1969), Buenos Aires, Argentina and Haverford, Pennsylvania Denholm Muir Jacobs (b. 1922), Massachusetts and Northeast Harbor, Maine, son Vose Galleries, Boston Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1971 Ernest Joresco, Chicago James G. Flannery, Barrington Hills, Illinois

Thence by descent in the family
Exhibition history Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and His Likenesses, 18 July-6 September 1981.
Inscriptions recorded as signed and dated on reverse Cs Polk Painter A.D. 1790
References

John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas (Philadelphia, 1931), p. 135, no. 12. Tillou Gallery, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (January 1971), p. 25. The Frick Art Reference Library, 121-20-g.

Linda Crocker Simmons, Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and His Likenesses (Washington D.C., 1981), p. 28, no. 16.
Source/Photographer Christie's
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