Charles Willson Peale
Major John Swan
1787
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Sight: 35 1/2 × 26 1/2 in. (90.2 × 67.3 cm.)
Framed: 43 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (110.5 × 87.6 × 10.5 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.241
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; Mary Frick Jacobs (1851-1905), Baltimore, MD by purchase, 1885; Mrs. Robert Swan by descent; Major John Swan, Annapolis, MD.
The Peabody Galleries, Baltimore, Loan Exhibition Inaugurated by The Friends of Art, Jan. 4-24, 1922, n.p., no. 80 (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. 68, no. 65.
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. 38.
PAFA, Philadelphia, "Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale," Apr. 11-May 9, 1923, p. 68, no. 65.
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. 38.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 114-115, ill. p. 115.
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 08
