Portrait of Colonel Braithwaite Jones (1726-1789)

Art

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Portrait of Colonel Braithwaite Jones (1726-1789)

Entry/Object ID

GHS 52

Description

Portrait of male figure in seated pose, dark coat with yellow and white ruffled shirt. Seated in red upholstered chair with gold trim. Left arm grasps around chair, right hand rests on right leg. Gilt frame. By James Peale (1749-1831). J(AS.) PEALE/ 1814 (according to CAP survey) label glued on backing: "Pennsylvania Academy of FIne Arts Loan Exhibit of P----- by Charles Wilson Peale, Rembrandt [ ] and James Peale. TITLE: Col. Blaithwaite Jones/ LENDER: Site and Relic Society/ RETURN ADDRESS: Vernon Museum Gtn."

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Made/Created

Artist

Peale, James

Place

* Untyped Place

USA, probably Philadelphia

Notes

Author: Peale, James

Dimensions

Height

42-1/2 in

Width

32-1/4 in

Relationships

Related Publications

Publication

Moon, Robert. The Morris Family of Philadelphia, vol. II, 1898 Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families, B-1 vol III Publications of Genealogical Society of PA vol VIII Germantown Crier, Fall 1985 37(4):92 Photo Index Box, Envelope 5 Beehive Morris/Jones in: Photo Index, Beehive Index, Archives Index, Crier Index, Obituary Index Morris House/Arboretum Roberts., C.V. Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, 1925 Roberts, E.W., Kirth & Kin for 300 Years, 1932 Archives Index, Obit Index- Jones Curator Subject File, Peale Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale, James Peale, and Rembrandt Peale, Pennsylvania Academy of FIne Arts, 1923.

Provenance

Notes

Donor is great-great-great- granddaughter of Col. Jones. Col. Blaithwaite Jones, army officer in the Revolutionary War, husband of Mary Morris Jones (GHS 75); father of Captain Gibbs Jones (GHS 74) Catalogue of American Portraits (1979) National Portrait Gallery. Brief genealogy in object file. Donated by Grace Patterson Turnbull, c. 1912