A Transformed Generation of Women?

Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael, Benjamin West (American, 1738-1820), c. 1770, Oil on canvas, 26 3/16 x 26 1/8 in., Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Gift 1927.393

Detail shows Rachel Brewer Peale, artist Charles Wilson Peale’s first wife, and their daughter, Margaret.

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), The Peale Family, 1773-1809, oil on canvas. Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan, New-York Historical Society, 1867.298. Photography © New-York Historical Society, http://www.nyhistory.org.

Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, NJ. Gift of Amelia Vredenburgh Knight, 1932

Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego

Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased for the Cadwalader Collection with funds contributed by the Mabel Pew Myrin Trust and the gift of an anonymous donor, 1983, 1983-90-2