Samuel Fisher Bradford

1803–8

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778–1860)

Status: On View, Gallery 172
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Rembrandt Peale
Title: Samuel Fisher Bradford
Place: Philadelphia (Place depicted)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1803–1808
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 68.5 × 55.9 cm (27 × 22 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Alexander Vance
Reference Number: 1986.21
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Lillian B. Miller and Carol Eaton Hevner, In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778–1860, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1992), cat. 8.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 124–128, cat. 51 (ill.).

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Exhibition of Portraits Presented by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Pennsylvania, Dec. 8, 1958–Jan. 11, 1959, attributed to Jacob Eichholtz.
Philadelphia, Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Winter, 1985, cat. 6.
Washington, DC, National Portrait Gallery, In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778–1860, Nov. 6, 1992–Feb. 7, 1993, cat. 8.

By descent in the Bradford family, Philadelphia; Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia, by 1985; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

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