Portrait of a Woman
Charles Willson Peale
ca. 1775
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (24.8 x 20 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.129.2
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Charles Willson Peale · 1741–1827
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) was an American painter, museum founder, naturalist, and inventor who became the most important American portraitist of the Revolutionary era and a central figure in the cultural life of the young republic. Born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, he initially trained as a saddler before turning to painting, studying briefly with John Singleton Copley in Boston and ...