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Master Peters
Joseph Wood (born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830)
1804
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.8 x 5.6 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift of Douglas K.S. Hyland
- 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
The Peters family played a prominent role in Philadelphia during the early nineteenth century. This portrait was originally attributed to Edward Greene Malbone, but research has since proved it to be the work of Joseph Wood.
