Charles Willson Peale
Elizabeth Maxwell Swan (Mrs. John Swan)
1782
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Sight: 35 3/8 × 26 1/2 in. (89.9 × 67.3 cm.)
Framed: 44 × 34 7/8 × 4 1/8 in. (111.8 × 88.6 × 10.5 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.240
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; Mary Frick Jacobs (1851-1905), Baltimore, MD by purchase, 1886; Mrs. Robert Swan by descent
William Frederick (1817-1905) and Ann Elizabeth Swan Frick (1819-1889), Baltimore, MD likely by descent, 1859; James (1796-1859) and Elizabeth Donnell Swan (1801-1836), Baltimore, MD by commission
William Frederick (1817-1905) and Ann Elizabeth Swan Frick (1819-1889), Baltimore, MD likely by descent, 1859; James (1796-1859) and Elizabeth Donnell Swan (1801-1836), Baltimore, MD by commission
The Peabody Galleries, Baltimore, Loan Exhibition Inaugurated by The Friends of Art, Jan. 4-24, 1922, n.p., no. 79 (lent by Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs);
PAFA, Philadelphia, "Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale," Apr. 11-May 9, 1923, P. 72, no. 69;
BMA, "A Century of Baltimore Collecting," 1840-1940, June 6-Sept. 1, 1941, p. 66;
Cincinnati Art Museum, "Paintings by the Peale Family," Oct. 1-31, 1954, p. 17, no. 39;
Washington College, Chestertown, MD, "Charles Willson Peale: Artist from Chestertown," May 7-16, 1971, n.p., no. 5
PAFA, Philadelphia, "Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale," Apr. 11-May 9, 1923, P. 72, no. 69;
BMA, "A Century of Baltimore Collecting," 1840-1940, June 6-Sept. 1, 1941, p. 66;
Cincinnati Art Museum, "Paintings by the Peale Family," Oct. 1-31, 1954, p. 17, no. 39;
Washington College, Chestertown, MD, "Charles Willson Peale: Artist from Chestertown," May 7-16, 1971, n.p., no. 5
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, p. 116, ill. p. 115.
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 08
