Charles Willson Peale

The Thomas Johnson Family

1771

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Charles Willson Peale

The Thomas Johnson Family

1771

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, Sight: 45 3/4 x 57 1/2 in. (116.2 x 146.1 cm) Framed: 51 x 62 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (129.5 x 159.4 x 8.3 cm)

Credit Line Collection of the Trustees of the C. Burr Artz Trust, Frederick, Maryland, on extended loan to The Baltimore Museum of Art

Object Number R.11862

Sellers, "Portraits by Charles Willson Peale," Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., vol. 42, Pt. 1, 1952, no. 423, pp. 112-113.

Lillian B. Miller, 'The Dye is Now Cast; the Road to American Independence, 1774-1776,' Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Portrait Gallery by The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975, ill. no. 23, p. 37

Daniel Blake Smith, 'Inside the Great House; Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society,' Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980, ill.

Edgar P. Richardson, Brooke Hindle, Lillian B. Miller, 'Charles Willson Peale and His World,' New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1982, ill. no. 150 p. 205.

Linda Joy, "Library trustees moving valuable historic painting to Baltimore."

Linda Joy, Peale dispute persists; Mayor opposes the move, 'The Frederick Post,' Frederick, MD, Thursday, January 7, 1988

The Peale painting belongs in Frederick, 'The Frederick News-Post,' Frederick, MD, Friday, January 8, 1988, p. A-6.

Roy Meachum, Library Big Daddy-ism, 'Frederick News-Post,' Jan. 11, 1988.

Peale portrait's transfer to BMA spurs controversy, Today section, 'The Sun,' Baltimore, MD. Wednesday, January 13, 1988, pp. 1D, 5D, ill. p. 5D.

Lillian B. Miller, "Father and Son: The Relationship of Charles Willson Peale and Raphaelle Peale," 'The American Art Journal,' Vol. XXV, nos. 1 and 2, 1993, pp. 4-61, ill. Fig. 8, p. 12.