Lot 126: Charles Peale Polk Portrait of Mr. McCausland

Charles Peale Polk
(1767-1822)

portrait of mr. mccausland and daughter frances p. mccausland, baltimore, circa 179

Unsigned, oil on canvas, framed.

H: 35 3/4 in. W: 28 3/4 in. (sight)



PROVENANCE:

Descended in the family of John Purviance Leigh, Jr. (1800-1865) of Norfolk, Virginia to the present owner.
Little is known of the McCausland family but it is thought that they had ties to Baltimore and Pennsylvania. It is known that Frances P. McCausland married John F. Southgate of Baltimore in 1811 at the First Episcopal Church . They moved to Norfolk, VA where they had five children. Polk painted a companion portrait of Mrs. McCausland and son, that remains in private hands, see. fig. 92, pg 53 in catalog cited below.

Exhibition and Literature:
Charles Peale Polk (1776-1822) A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1981. Illustrated and discussed in catalog of same name by Linda Crocker Simmons (1981) Fig. 91, pg. 53.