Benjamin Dudley Peter (1840-1911), (painting).

Benjamin Dudley Peter (1840-1911), (painting).

Morgan, Louis, 1814-1852, painter.

Benjamin Dudley Peter (1840-1911), (painting).

Portrait of Benjamin Dudley Peter as a young boy/man seated on the banks of a river with a large city in the background.

Portrait male -- Peter, Benjamin Dudley

Landscape -- River

Restricted Owner, Alexandria, Virginia

Formerly in the collection of Nelson, David,

Son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Peter of Lexington, Kentucky. For additional information see Mrs. Elizabeth (Murphey) Simpson's "Bluegrass Houses and Their Traditions," Lexington, KY: Transylvania Press, 1932, pg. 58-59; and Edna Talbott Whitley's, "Kentucky Ante-bellum Portraiture; Illustrated by Photos from the Collection of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Paris(?), KY, 1956.

Nelson, David, 2006.

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