Mrs. John Nicholson and John Nicholson, Jr., (painting).

Mrs. John Nicholson and John Nicholson, Jr., (painting).

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827, painter.

Mrs. John Nicholson and John Nicholson, Jr., (painting).

Hannah Duncan Nicholson and John Nicholson, Jr., (painting).

Digital Reference:

36 x 27 5/16 in. (91.5 x 69.3 cm)

Family portrait of Mrs. Nicholson and her son. The mother wears a soft blue dress and has long black hair which falls over her shoulders. She faces forward and holds her arms around her son, who is seated on the edge of a table at right. The boy wears a white dress and blue hat with feather and holds a yellow flower in his left hand. Both sitters look at the viewer and smile. A landscape is in the background.

Portrait group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Portrait female -- Nicholson, John, Mrs. (Hannah Duncan) -- Waist length

Portrait male -- Nicholson, John, Jr. -- Child

Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60603-6110 Accession Number: 1952.1001

Gift of Harrison, Carter H., Mr. & Mrs.,

"American arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: from colonial times to World War I," Chicago, Ill.: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, no. 49.

Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Sellers, "Portraits & Miniatures by C. W. Peale" Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., V.42, Pt. 1, Philadelphia, 1952.

"Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: a catalogue of the picture collection," Chicago, Ill.: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

Sellers No. 595:

Sellers, Charles Coleman, "Charles Willson Peale with patron and populace," (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new ser., vol. 59, pt. 3) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1969, no. Sp104, 50.

"American arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: from colonial times to World War I," Chicago, Ill.: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pg. 125.

Sellers, Charles Coleman, "Charles Willson Peale with patron and populace," (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new ser., vol. 59, pt. 3) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1969, P. 128.

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