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Title
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Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer) and Baby Eleanor
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Description
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Portrait miniature of the artist's wife and infant daughter, Eleanor. Mrs. Peale is dressed in a mauve gown, hat, and double strand pearl necklace. Eleanor is dressed in a blue and white baby gown, with matching blue headband. Both have their faces pressed together and are looking forward and smiling.
Peale painted this portrait of his first wife just after her death in 1790.
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Date
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1790
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height
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2 1/2 in (6.5 cm)
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width
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2 in (5.2 cm)
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Provenance
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Charles Willson and Rachel Brewer Peale's daughter, Sophonisba A. Peale; her son, Coleman Sellers; his daughter, Jesse Sellers Colton (Mrs. Sabin Woolworth Colton, Jr.), Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; her daughter, Suzanne Colton Wilson, Corpus Christi, Texas; Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, Arizona; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 May 1987, lot 23
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Rights
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Public Domain
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Identifier
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2006.235.127
