# Howes Goldsborough

- By: James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
- Date: 1799
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (7.3 x 5.7 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=19297)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/054a665b6da5eac76a8c3db9bbb1d960.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Howes Goldsborough (1775-1841) was twenty-four years old when he sat for this miniature. He married Mary Rodgers, daughter of Commodore Rodgers of Sion Hall, Harford County, Maryland, in 1812. Mary Rodgers was George Washington Rodgers’ sister, and his miniature, painted by an unidentified artist, is in this collection \[see 1950.4.32\].