Lot 82: CHARLES PEALE POLK 1767-1822 GEORGE WASHINGTON AT PRINCETON Measurements: 35 .5 by 27 .5in. Alternate Measurements: (90.2 by 69.8 cm) inscribed Cs Polk Painter No. 36 on the reverse prior to lining oil on canvas Painted circa 1790-93. Provenance: By

CHARLES PEALE POLK 1767-1822 GEORGE WASHINGTON AT PRINCETON Measurements: 35 .5 by 27 .5in. Alternate Measurements: (90.2 by 69.8 cm) inscribed Cs Polk Painter No. 36 on the reverse prior to lining oil on canvas Painted circa 1790-93. Provenance: By descent in the family of Major Matthew McConnell (a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Insurance Company of North America) Gordon B. Miller Huntington, Pennsylvania Exhibited: Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Williamsburg, Virginia, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center; Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art; Sandwich, Massachusetts, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Charles Peale Polk 1767-1822: A Limner and His Likenesses, July 1981-October 1982, no. 19, p. 29, illustrated (as George Washington) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, 225 Years of Liberty: The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, July-September 2001 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Vacation!, July-September 2003 Literature and References: M.J. McCosker, The Historical Collection of the Insurance Company of North America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1967, pp. 193, 199, illustrated Note: This painting is the 36th of over 100 replicas by Charles Peale Polk based on the original Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington painted in 1787.