Charles Willson Peale
Mr. Thomas Ringgold, Jr.
c. 1773
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 34 3/4 × 30 × 2 5/8 in. (88.3 × 76.2 × 6.7 cm.)
Sight: 28 7/8 × 24 1/8 in. (73.3 × 61.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Friends of the American Wing Auction Fund
Object Number
1985.74
Thomas Ringgold, Jr. sat to Charles Wilson Peale the year after his father died. At the time of the portrait, Thomas and his wife were living in his father's house on Water Street.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1985
Lillian B. Miller and David C. Ward, eds., "New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration," Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991, pp. 18, 24-25, 54, ill. 9.
Charles Coleman Sellers, "Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale," Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1952, p. 12, 181, ill.
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Chestertown
