Portrait of female figure in 3/4 view. Sitter has brown hair with curls framing face. Empire waist ivory dress, short puffed sleeves, sheer lace shawl over head and shoulders. Right hand in lap holding blue-green purse with gold link chain handle. Left arm drapes over small chest which sits on table covered with red cloth. Brown background. Gilt over wood frame with scalloped inset.
Label on back reads as follows, "The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts/ An Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Wilson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, and James Peale./ (in handwriting) "C.W. Peale. Title: Mary Morris Jones/ Lender: Site and Relic Society M----/ Return Address: ----Museum / G.------" Stamp over writing "57".
Label, "Mary Morris Jones (b.1740 d.1820) was the daughter of James Morris and Elizabeth Kearney Morris and the great granddaughter of Anthony Morris, the second mayor of Philadelphia. Mary was married to Captain Blaithwaite Jones (b.1726-d. 1789) an ardent Revolutionary patriot.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Made/Created
Artist
Peale, James, attributed to
Notes
Author: Peale, James, attributed to
Dimensions
Height
42 in
Width
34-1/2 in
Depth
2-5/8 in
Relationships
Related Publications
Publication
Family File- Morris/Jones
Moon, Robert. The Morris Family of Philadelphia Vol. II, 1898
Geneology of PA Families vol. III
Germantown Crier F 1985 37(4): 92
Roberts, C.V. Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, 1925
Roberts, E.W. Kith and Kin for 300 Years, 1932
Morris/Jones
Photo Files
Archives Index
Obituary Index
Germantown Crier Index
Curator's Subject files- Peale
James Peale, Charles Peale
Schwarz, R.D. A Gallery Collects Peales, 1987.
Provenance
Notes
GHS Accession Book, "Portrait- Mary Morris Jones by Charles Wilson Peale? Presented by Mrs. Jones' Great Great Great Granddaughter, Grace Patterson Turnbull."
