John Nicholson

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1790

Charles Willson Peale
American, 1741–1827

Status: On View, Gallery 168
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Charles Willson Peale
Title: John Nicholson
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.: 1790
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 91.5 × 70 cm (36 × 27 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison
Reference Number: 1952.1000
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Charles Coleman Sellers, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 59 (1969), p. 74.
Carl B. Lechner, Erie: Link to the Great Lakes (Erie County Historical Society, 1994), p. 21 ill.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).

Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Mar. 8–Apr. 3, 1955, no. 7 (ill. 7).
Detroit Institute of Arts, The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists, Jan. 18–Mar. 5, no. 42 (ill. p. 59).
Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Mar. 26–May 7, 1967.
Chapel Hill, N.C., The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, The Age of Dunlap: The Arts of the Young Republic, Nov. 1–29, 1968.
Harrisburg, Pa., State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Commonwealth and the Constitution, May 1, 1987–Feb. 28, 1988, no. cat. published.

The Nicholson Family. Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, by 1952; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.

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