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John B. Pendleton

Rembrandt Peale

ca. 1820

John B. Pendleton by Rembrandt Peale

Medium

Painting-Miniature

Classification

Painting-Miniature

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer

Accession Number

1999.27.38

Tags

bust

About this artwork

John B. Pendleton (1798-1866) was one of America’s earliest lithographers, establishing his printing house in Boston in 1825. Lithography was then the most modern form of reproducing a drawing. One of Pendleton’s apprentices was Nathaniel Currier, who would eventually buy his mentor’s firm and, with his new partner, rename it Currier & Ives. Rembrandt Peale also painted a full-length portrait of Pendleton, now owned by the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.

About the Artist

Rembrandt Peale · 1778–1860

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