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Mrs. John McCluney
James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
ca. 1795
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (6.7 x 5.4 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
It is not clear whether this woman is Elizabeth Purviance, who was married to Major John McCluney of Pennsylvania in 1804, or if she is Isabella Shearer of Virginia, who married a John McCluney in 1779. With luck, further research will eventually reveal her identity.
