Art of America
Art of America
Property of a Private Pennsylvania Collector
George Washington
Auction Closed
January 19, 07:25 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Pennsylvania Collector
Charles Willson Peale
1741 - 1827
George Washington
oil on canvas
29 by 23 ¾ in.
73.7 by 60.3 cm.
Executed circa 1795.
Eni Zerbe and Mary Elizabeth Bradford, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (until 1892)
Lydia Azabeth Frances Zerbe and George Washington Drawbaugh, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (until 1927)
Beulah L. Drawbaugh and William Brown Goetz, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (until 1966)
Janet Goetz Keough, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (until 1989)
[with] William Bradford Goetz III, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Acquired from the above in 1991 by the present owner
Charles Coleman Sellers, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, Philadelphia 1952, no. 942, p. 361, another example illustrated
Charles Coleman Sellers, Charles Willson Peale, New York 1969, no. 65, p. 277, another example illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, The Barra Foundation, Charles Willson Peale and His World, 1982, no. 141, p. 190, another example illustrated
Mount Vernon, Virginia, George Washington's Mount Vernon, 1996-2005 (on loan)
Mount Vernon, Virginia, Douglas W. Reynolds Museum, John and Adrienne Mars Gallery, 2006-08 (on loan)
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, 2012-2023 (on loan)