Both this miniature and Peter Bounetheau (1946.3.2) are nearly identical portraits of the artist’s father in the robes of a magistrate. Peter Bounetheau had served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War, and thereafter Benjamin Franklin appointed him the postmaster of Charleston, South Carolina. For both paintings, the artist copied a miniature of his father painted by Henry Benbridge as inspiration.
- Title
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Peter Bounetheau
- Artists
- Copy after Henry Benbridge
- Date
- ca. 1815
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 1 1⁄4 x 1 in. (3.2 x 2.5 cm) oval
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Mrs. Henry Du Pré Bounetheau
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Occupation – political – statesman
- Object Number
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1946.3.3
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
