Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 66.46
Date:
1782
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Sellers, Charles Coleman, "Charles Willson Peale with patron and populace," (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new ser., vol. 59, pt. 3) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1969, No. sp147, 30.
Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 127.
Summary:
Portrait of Thomas Willing seated in an upholstered Philadelphia armchair, beside a neoclassical column and drapery. On the right is a waterscape with a pilot boat and a lighthouse. The scene is the channel between Cape Henlopen in Delaware and Cape May in New Jersey. Willing helped to raise funds for the lighthouse pictured in the background. In his left hand he holds a snuff box with a portrait of George Washington.
