About This Artwork

James Peale
American, 1749-1831

Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst, 1790

Watercolor on ivory
6.3 x 5.2 cm (2 1/2 x 2 1/16 in.)
Signed, lower right:"I P 1790"
Mary Louise Stevenson Fund, 1958.410

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 124-128, no. 50.