# William Shippen

- By: James Peale (born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831)
- Date: 1794
- 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=19305)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/0dd2e55a72ab50e15cf601db745ca815.jpg
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William Shippen (1792-1867) was two or three years old when James Peale painted this miniature of him. William was the older brother of Thomas Lee Shippen, whose miniature was also painted by Peale \[see 1999.87.4\]. William would go on to earn a medical degree, and in 1817 he married Mary Louise Shore. The miniature is inscribed to William and Mary Louise’s oldest niece, Jane Gray Wharton, from her mother.