Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 18, 1820
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 102
Additional Source Text:
"He is an orphan, and now a pupil of the Pennsylvania Institutuion [for the deaf and dumb] -- he has never received a single lesson in drawing -- this production in purely intuitive."
National Gazette and Literary Register (Philadelphia), 28 Aug 1821 provides donor's name.
Notes:
Albert Newsam (1809-1864), earlier known as Albert N. Davis, was an Ohio-born artist who was brought to Philadelphia about the time of this donation. He worked for Cephas G. Childs and later Peter S. Duval and excelled at engraved and lithographic portraits.
David G. Seixas (1788–1864) was the founder of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
