The Painter's Chair (38 page)

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Gilbert Stuart.
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_______, ed.
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Miller, Lillian B.
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_______. “In the Shadow of His Father: Rembrandt Peale, Charles Willson Peale, and the American Portrait Tradition.”
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,
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The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770–1870.
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_______ and Ward, David C., eds.
New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration.
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Moore, Charles.
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_______ and Mantle Fielding.
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Nelligan, Murray H
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. Old Arlington: The Story of Arlington House.
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_______. “The Building of Arlington House,” in
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Winterthur Portfolio
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Peale, Charles Willson.
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Peale, Rembrandt. “Lecture on Washington and his Portraits” (1858), reprinted in
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_______. “Reminiscences. Charles Willson Peale. A Sketch by His Son.”
The Crayon 1
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_______. “Reminiscences. The Painter’s Eyes.”
The Crayon 3
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Poulet, Anne L.
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Metropolitan Museum Journal
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Ribblett, David L.
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Mount Vernon: Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 1993.

Rich, Jack C.
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1947.

Richardson, Edgar P. “A Penetrating Characterization of Washington by John Trumbull.”
Winterthur Portfolio
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Saunders, Richard H.
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

_______. “John Smibert’s Italian Sojourn—Once Again.”
Art Bulletin
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Savage, Edward.
Exhibition of the Important Oil Painting (9 feet long, 6 feet 9 inches high), Washington and His Family.
New York: Avery Galleries, 1892.

Schama, Simon.
Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Sellers, Charles Coleman.
Charles Willson Peale.
2 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1947, 1969.

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Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1952.

_______. “Virginia’s Great Allegory of William Pitt.”
William and Mary Quarterly
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Gazette des Beaux-Arts
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Shadwell, Wendy J. “The Portrait Engravings of Charles Willson Peale,” in
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Sizer, Theodore.
The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Artist of the American Revolution
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Smibert, John.
The Notebook of John Smibert.
Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1969.

The Smibert Tradition: The First Selected Showing of John Smibert’s Paintings since 1730.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1949.

Stein, Susan R.
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Stetson, Charles W.
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Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1956.

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Scribner’s Monthly,
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_______. “The Stuart Portraits of Washington.”
Scribner’s Monthly,
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Swem, E. G.
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Barre, MA: Barre Gazette, 1957.

Templeman, Eleanor Lee.
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New York: Avenel Books, 1959.

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Trumbull, John.
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. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953.

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Papers.
Miscellaneous correspondence and other documents are to be found in the Trumbull collections at the Yale University Library
and at the Connecticut Historical Society.

Tuckerman, Henry T.
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New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1867.

Unger, Harlow Giles.
Lafayette.
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