# Thomas Lee Shippen

- By: James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
- Date: 1795
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (4.4 x 3.5 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=19304)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6bae695f6585014fbdd397c5d52cbda6.jpg
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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 \[see 1999.87.2\].