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  • Polk, Charles Peale,
     
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  • Portrait male -- Shields, Thomas
     
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  • Occupation -- Craft
     
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  • Painting
     
     
    Thomas Shields (1743-1805), (painting).
    Artist: 
    Polk, Charles Peale, 1767-1822, painter.
    Title: 
    Thomas Shields (1743-1805), (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1790.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    23 x 19 in.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    Bust-length portrait of Thomas Shields.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Shields, Thomas -- Bust
    Occupation -- Craft -- Smithing
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Mellen, Charles R., Mrs., Geneva, New York
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Shields, Thomas,
    Shields, Robert,
    Stedman, Edmund C., Mrs. (Mary Shields),
    Johnson, Charles, Mrs. (Mary A. Stedman),
    Walker, H. C., Mrs. (Eleanor Johnson),
    Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., 815 Madison Ave., New York, New York 10021
    References: 
    Simmons, Linda Crocker, "Charles Peale Polk, 1776-1822: a limner and his likenesses," Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1981, no. 4.
    Antiques (Oct. 1976): pg. 641.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Simmons, Linda Crocker, "Charles Peale Polk, 1776-1822: a limner and his likenesses," Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1981, pg. 23.
    Antiques (Oct. 1976): pg. 641.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 80043977
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