Artwork Details
- Title
- Peter Bounetheau
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1820
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sight 6 1⁄4 x 4 3⁄4 in. (15.9 x 12.1 cm) oval
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Henry Du Pré Bounetheau
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Keywords
- Occupation — political — statesman
- Portrait male — Bounetheau, Peter — bust
- Object Number
- 1946.3.2
Artwork Description
Both this miniature and Peter Bounetheau (1946.3.3) 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.