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'Art conceal'd': Peale's double portrait of Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming
Art Bulletin, The, March, 1996 by Ellen G. Miles, Leslie Reinhardt
98. Peale mentions the visit in his letter to John Beale Bordley, Mar. 1767 (Peale Papers, I, 47); see also Peale, Diary 1, Part 2: Memoranda and Accounts while in England, London, 1767 (Peale Papers, I, 62). The influence of Cotes on Peale, especially that of his double portraits, has been pointed out by Prown (as in n. 9), 43-44.
99. For example, Anne Sandby as Emma, the Nut-Brown Maid (ca. 1765; Mrs. M. Smiley, Scotland); The Duchess of Hamilton as Venus, Queen of Beauty (1767; Duke of Argyll, Inveraray Castle); Lady Stanhope and Lady Effingham as Diana and Her Companion (ca. 1767-70; Earl of Mexborough, Methley Park, Leeds); see E. M. Johnson, Francis Cotes: Complete Edition with a Critical Essay and a Catalogue, Oxford, 1976, 79, no. 183; 86, no. 219; 92, no. 250.
100. Saunders and Miles (as in n. 89), 196-97, no. 59; the portrait is owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
101. Von Erffa and Staley, 502-3, no. 612; 504, no. 613; 512-13, nos. 629, 630; and ke568-69, no. 721.
102. Ibid., 279-80, no. 222; 277-78, no. 218; 284, no. 228. There is some question about the theme of the third painting. The male figure is not identified as a portrait by Von Erffa and Staley.
103. Peale Papers, I, 127.
104. The discourses were published individually before the first collected edition of 1797; see Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art, ed. R. Wark, New Haven/London, 1975, 337-38.
105. Ibid., 25-26.
106. Ibid., 43-48.
107. Lyman H. Butterfield, ed., Adams Family Correspondence; Cambridge, Mass., 1963, II, 104.
108. Hurd, quoted in Brand (as in n. 44), 262.
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Ellen G. Miles, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, is the author of Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994) and American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century (1995), a volume in the National Gallery of Art's series of systematic catalogues of its permanent collection [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560!.
Leslie Reinhardt attended graduate school in art history at Princeton University and is now with the Peale Family Papers, a documentary history project at the National Portrait Gallery. She contributed to the National Gallery of Art systematic catalogue American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century and is currently researching costume in Peale's portraiture [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560!.
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