Portrait of Margaret Moore Jones (1752 or 1757- 1832)
Entry/Object ID
GHS 53
Description
Seated portrait of woman identified as Margaret Jones (see Notes), wearing a white lace bonnet, grey dress, 3/4 length sleeves with white lace trim and white lace at neckline. Gold shawl draped over red upholstered chair. Left arm resting on chair arm and hand holding book. Right hand on lap. Dark background, gilt frame.
75 is written in with pencil on frame.
"Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Loan Exhibit of P--- by Charles Wilson Peale, Rembrandt [ ] and James Peale, TITLE: Margaret Moore Jones/ LENDER: Site and Relic Society / RETURN ADDRESS: Vernon Museum Gtn" Stamped "60", on stretcher, "Mary Jane Moore Jones"
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Made/Created
Date made
1795 - 1810
Place
* Untyped Place
USA, probably Philadelphia
Dimensions
Height
43 in
Width
35-1/2 in
Depth
1-1/4 in
Relationships
Related Publications
Publication
Family Files:
Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families B-1 Vol. III
Publications of Geneological Society of PA Vol VIII
Germantown Crier F 1985 37(4): 92
Schwarz, R.D. A Gallery Collects Peales 198
Photo Index, Beehive Index, Archives Index, Obit Index
Roberts, C.V., Early Friends and Family of Upper Bucks 1925
Roberts, E.W., Kirth & Kin for 300 Years, 1932
Curator's Subject files- Peale
James Peale, Charles Wilson Peale
Brief Bio in object catalogue file
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portratis by Charles Willson Peale, James Peale, and Rembrandt Peale. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1923.
Provenance
Notes
See GHS True Accession Book, "Portrait of Margaret Jones by Charles Wilson Peale"
Wife of Captain Gibb Jones (GHS 74) daughter-in-law of Lt. Col. Blaithwaite Jones (GHS 52) and Mary Morris Jones (GHS 75). Donor is great-great-grandaughter of Margaret Moore Jones.
Peale paintings donated in 1912 by Grace Patterson Turnbull.
