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John Beale Bordley
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This is thought to be a miniature of one of Charles Willson Peale’s earliest and most loyal patrons, the Maryland agriculturist John Beale Bordley (1727-1804). The date of the miniature, however, seventeen years after Bordley’s death, makes the identification unlikely. Although the man’s features bear a passing resemblance to Bordley, further research needs to be done.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineJohn Beale Bordley. 1821. Joseph Robinson, English, born ca. 1768-died ?. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer. CC0.
