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PORTRAIT OF RICHARD MOORE (1745-1829)

PORTRAIT OF RICHARD MOORE (1745-1829)

measurements
26 by 22in.

alternate measurements
66 by 55.9cm

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Descended in the family of Richard Moore.
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
A private Boston collector

LITERATURE

Portraits & Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, Charles Coleman Sellers
Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale, Pennsylvania Academy, April - May 1923
Limners & Likenesses by Alan Burroughs
Manuscrips from descendants of Richard Moore
William Henry Moore and his ancestry by DeForest (Maryland Historical Society)
Colonial Families of America (Maryland Historical Society)
Ancestors & Descendants of Henry Moore by J.A. Passmore (New England Historical Genealogic Society)
Moore and Allied Families by L. Effingham DeForest (New England Historical Gen. Society)
The Peales by Oliver Jensen, American Heritage Magazine, April 1995

NOTE

in what appears to be the original frame. Painted in 1811.

Richard Moore was born August 2, 1745 in London Towne, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. His great grandfather, Dr. Mordecai Moore, came to America shortly after the middle of the seventeenth century as physician to Lord Baltimore, later moving to Anne Arundel County where he and his family owned most of what is now London Towne. Dr. Mordecai Moore had a son, Richard (d. 1734); he, in turn, had a son, Mordecai (d. 1800). The subject of the portrait in question was a son of this second Mordecai. His mother was Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of Joseph Coleman.

Richard married Letitia Evans of Philadelphia (d. 1780).

Richard's sister Hannah married the artist Charles Willson Peale in 1805. As she was a Quaker and Peale was not, she wrote the following letter to her Church, the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, December 31, 1805,
Dear Friends: I acknowledge having so far deviated from the Discipline established amongst Friends, as to accomplish my marriage (by the assistance of a Magistrate) with a Man who is not in Membership with us and I am ..?... sorry for transgressing any of the rules of our Society, therefore hope you will deem me deserving of being continued in Membership, as my future Conduct may render me worthy. Hannah Peale
The original letter accompanies this lot, along with a volume on the portrait prepared by Vose Galleries, Boston.

On the back of the stretcher was written: "This portrait of Richard Moore I gave to my niece Hallie G. Chandler on her wedding day July 15, 1880 (?) Elma E. Payson"

The portrait is recorded as #566 in Sellers' checklist of paintings by Charles Willson Peale.