# Mrs. John McCluney

- By: James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
- Date: 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
- 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=19299)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/456f742c1f4821e64e44825508ea24a4.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.