Rembrandt PealeAmerican, 1778–1860John B. Pendleton
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Sep 25, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
John B. Pendleton (1798-1866) was one of America’s earliest lithographers, establishing his printing house in Boston in 1825. Lithography was then the most modern form of reproducing a drawing. One of Pendleton’s apprentices was Nathaniel Currier, who would eventually buy his mentor’s firm and, with his new partner, rename it Currier & Ives. Rembrandt Peale also painted a full-length portrait of Pendleton, now owned by the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1999.27.38
What it shows
Sources
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 5 days ago
- Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
