Amerigo Vespucci
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Object Details
- Artist
- Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827
- Sitter
- Amerigo Vespucci, Mar 1454 - 22 Feb 1512
- Provenance
- Peale Museum, Philadelphia; Peale Museum sale, 1854, number 2; Wilson C. Swann, Philadelphia; gift 1859 to Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; transferred to the Atwater Kent Museum (now the Philadelphia History Museum); deaccessioned to (Christie's, New York, 29 September 2010, bought in); purchased 2011 NPG
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1816
- Object number
- NPG.2011.14
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 58.4 x 48.3cm (23 x 19")
- Frame: 65.1 x 55.9 x 3.2cm (25 5/8 x 22 x 1 1/4")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Amerigo Vespucci: Male
- Amerigo Vespucci: Natural Resource Occupations\Explorer
- Amerigo Vespucci: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Merchant
- Amerigo Vespucci: Science and Technology\Navigator
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2011.14
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm480e50a7c-cea1-4977-aeb6-431f48db15a4
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