Early American paintings; catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn instituteof arts and sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917 . iberty, and from August 1776 was secretary andaide-de-camp to Washington, who said of him in 1781: Hehas been in every action in which the main army was con-cerned, and has been a faithful assistant to me for nearly5 years, a great part of which time he refused to receive attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, carried the newsof Cornwalliss surrender from Yorktown to Philadelphia infour days (October, 1781), and received fro
Early American paintings; catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn instituteof arts and sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917 . iberty, and from August 1776 was secretary andaide-de-camp to Washington, who said of him in 1781: Hehas been in every action in which the main army was con-cerned, and has been a faithful assistant to me for nearly5 years, a great part of which time he refused to receive attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, carried the newsof Cornwalliss surrender from Yorktown to Philadelphia infour days (October, 1781), and received from Congress thanks,a sword and a horse. In 1784 he established a branch of thehouse of Robert Morris at Baltimore, and died portrait was purchased by the present owner from aMrs. Skinner, a descendant of the Tilghmans of Eastern, Mary-land, the home of the canvas: H. 30 inches; W. 25 inches. Lent by Mr. Albert Correction, page 62, line Eastern, Maryland, read Easton, Maryland. Wf^- m Br . ? ? ?^/HH^M -i^Bl «Jfl u Ik — - ? pHk^ (to ~ M H9wir |r r-i| BflHr J COLONEL TENCH TILGHMAN BY CHARLES WILLSON PEALE. GEORGE WASHINGTON BY CHARLES WILLSON PEALE EARLY AMERICAN PAINTINGS CHARLES WILLSON PEALE CONTINUED x^ GEORGE WASHINGTON. This portrait of Wash-^ ington shows the left side of the face and was paintedin the State House at Philadelphia contemporaneously withthe Stuart which depicts the right side. What has alwaysbeen considered the original from life of this type, because ofits being in the Peale Museum collection, is now owned by theNew York Historical Society—a bequest of T. B. Bryan ofPhiladelphia, who purchased it at the Museum sale in Henry Hart points out that the picture now exhibiteddiffers from that owned by the Historical Society in its unusualfreedom and in its having a curtain draping in the background,a detail not in any other example of this type, and also thatthe twilled canvas accounts for many of its g
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