Portrait of Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe
Title
Portrait of Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe
Description
"During his first term as President, in March 1803, Thomas Jefferson appointed Benjamin Latrobe Surveyor of Public Buildings. It may have been in recognition of this honor that Latrobe's good friend Charles Willson Peale painted this portrait for his Philadelphia gallery of distinguished persons. . . . ". . . The Latrobe portrait is not listed in [the artist's] museum Accession Book, begun about [1804], so it was probably painted later that year or early in 1805. . . . ". . . The artist boldly blocked in the ear, and he deftly brushed in the curly hair, sometimes dragging a nearly dry brush in short arcs. The silver-rimmed spectacles pushed back into the hair are incompletely indicated, almost improvised. "The face is handsome, but the artist is concerned first with character and mind. It is a moody, introspective likeness, alive with intellect." (Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008.)
Creator
Peale, Charles Willson (American painter, 1741-1827)
Source
Charles Willson Peale [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Benjamin_latrobe_by_peale.jpg
Date
ca. 1804
Rights
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Format
oil on canvas
22 1/2 x 19 1/2 in (57.2 x 49.5 cm)
Identifier
CP2014-063
Coverage
American
Repository: The White House, Washington, D.C.
Accession number: 973.1032.1
Files
Collection
Citation
Peale, Charles Willson (American painter, 1741-1827), “Portrait of Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe,” Classicizing Philadelphia, accessed April 20, 2024, https://classicizingphiladelphia.omeka.net/items/show/96.