Charles Willson Peale Painting of Gerard Troost

Item — no container: 1

Identifier: ANSP-2011-042

Staff Only

Dates

1824

Creator

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 (Artist, Person)

Extent

1 item(s) : 1 painting on canvas: oil ; 61 x 51 cm framed

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by William Samson Vaux; June 5, 1855 (collection 286).

Coll. 286

Information regarding the painting can be found in Collection 286. File contains conservation treatments, coorspondence and a brief history of its accrual can be found there.

Physical Description

Painting was conserved by at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1982.

General

Born at Bois-le-hluc, Holland, settled in Philadelphia in 1810. He was the most distinguished of the early American geologists and chemists. Was a founding member and first President of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1812-1817. Was for two years a member of the New Harmony Community under William Maclure. Was state geologist of Tennessee and Professor of chemistry and geology at the University of Nashville, where he died August 17, 1850. [Information taken from handwritten note in Troost file, Collection 286.]