Charles Willson Peale 1741-1827

Painted circa 1790-1795

Craig and Tarlton, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
Acquired from the above, 1973

Montreal, Canada, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Painter and the New World, 1967, no. 133, illustrated
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art and traveling, American Paintings, The Landon Collection, September 1979-July 1981, no. 7 
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, Furniture of the American South 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, November 2002-January 2003
Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Art Museum, A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts, August-November 2005, p. 24, illustrated in color p. 25

Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace, supplement to Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, with a survey of his other works and genres," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, May 1969, vol. 59, part 3, p. 83, illustrated p. 128

Good condition; lined; some craquelure, under UV: minor dots and dashes of retouching in figure, primarily in lightest pigments, some frame abrasion at left and right edges.
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The sitter's husband, James Wilson, graduated from Princeton University and eventually became pastor of a congregation at New London, Pennsylvania. He served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary War and due to illness, retired from the ministry in 1778. Ann Wilson (nee Stuart), the subject of this portrait, likely married her husband after he left the ministry and took up work as a merchant on the eastern shore of Maryland.