Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Renowned American painter (1778–1860) regarded as one of the finest portrait artists of his day. One of several artist brothers named by their father after Old Masters, he is best known for his multiple portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Manuscript DS, signed “Rem: Peale,” one page, 26.5 x 16.5, April 22, 1808. Indenture agreement for the sale of a house reads, in part: “his Indenture…Between Rembrandt Peale of the City of Philadelphia Portrait Painter and Eleanora M. his Wife, Of the one Part, and Rubens Peale of the said City Naturalist, Of the other Part…in consideration of the Sum of [$1,932] Mortgage Monies which he the said Rubens Peale hath undertaken and agreed to pay, as of the further sum of [$1,498] lawful money of the United States to them paid by the said Rubens Peale at the time of the Execution hereof the Receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged have granted bargained and sold released and confined a two Story Brick house and the lot or piece of Ground thereto belonging Situate on the North Side of Walnut Street between Delaware Sixth and Seventh Streets…bounded on the East by…Swanwick’s Alley, on the South by the said Walnut Street, on the West by Ground of the Philadelphia Society for the establishment and Support of Charity Schools and on the North by a six feet wide alley.” Signed at the conclusion by Peale and his wife Eleanora, and signed again on the reverse, “Rem: Peale,” beneath a receipt for $1,498. Storage folds, marginal binding holes to right edge, and scattered light toning and soiling, otherwise fine condition. In 1801, Peale painted a portrait of his brother entitled ‘Rubens Peale with a Geranium.’
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