Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr. by Charles Willson Peale
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Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr.

Charles Willson Peale · 1790

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Hannah Duncan Nicholson, 1790; by descent to John Nicholson, Jr. and wife, Anne Galbreth, 1823; by descent to Frances Sophia Duncan Nicholson (John Jr.’s daughter) and husband, Hon. Robert N. Ogden, 1848; by descent to the Ogden family 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Jr., Chicago, by 1952; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
  • Washington, DC, National Portrait Gallery, Charles Willson Peale and His World, Nov. 4, 1982–Jan. 2, 1983, no. 158, cat. by Edgar P. Richardson, p. 216 ill.; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Feb. 11–Apr. 3, 1982; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 6–Sept. 4, 1983.

Literature

Published references

  • Charles Coleman Sellers, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 59 (1969), p. 74.
  • Edgar P. Richardson, (Abrams, Inc., 1982), cat. no. 158, p. 216 ill.
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).

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