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Thomas Lee Shippen
James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
1795
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (4.4 x 3.5 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen
- 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
Thomas Shippen (1793-1810) was two or three years old when James Peale painted this miniature. Thomas and his brother, William---whose miniature by James Peale is also in this collection [see 1999.87.5]---were the sons of Thomas Lee Shippen (1765-1798) and Elizabeth Carter Farley (1774-1826). Farley’s miniature, painted by Hugh Bridport, is also in this collection [see 1999.87.2].
