Charles Willson Peale, Catherine and Elizabeth Hall, 1776
Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741 - 1827)
Catherine and Elizabeth Hall, 1776
Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches (76.84 x 64.14 cm)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gift of William B. and Harvey R. Fullerton, descendants of the sitters, F90-16
The painting is mentioned in Peale’s diary, so we know the very days that he worked on it. William Fullerton, who donated this painting to the museum, was a direct descendant of the little girl on the right. Mr. Fullerton seemed in perfectly good health when I visited him in his apartment near the Country Club Plaza to look at the painting, but he had died by the time the gift was announced just shortly afterward.
Bibliography
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1991, pp. 18-19.
Henry Adams, "Family Heirloom Enters the Museum," Calendar of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, May l99l, pp. 2-3.