File:Timothy Matlack.jpg

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Summary

Charles Willson Peale: Timothy Matlack

Artist



Description	American portrait painter
Date of birth/death	15 April 1741	22 February 1827
Location of birth/death	St. Paul's Parish, Maryland	Philadelphia
Work location	East coast of North America
Authority file	: Q454945 VIAF: 72190360 ISNI: 0000000082623463 ULAN: 500017914 LCCN: n80025860 NLA: 35413732 WorldCat

Title

Portrait of Timothy Matlack

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Timothy Matlack

Date

circa 1790

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 121.9 cm (47.9 in); width: 101.6 cm (40 in)

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

	Native name	Museum of Fine Arts Boston
	Location	Boston, Massachusetts
	Coordinates	42° 20′ 22″ N, 71° 05′ 39″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.mfa.org
	Authority file	: Q49133 VIAF: 151846308 ISNI: 0000000122918830 ULAN: 500305147 LCCN: n79058410 NLA: 36527557 WorldCat

Accession number

1998.218

Place of creation

United States of America

Notes

Peale's portrait of Timothy Matlack honors the sitter's distinguished public career. A radical Whig, Matlack played an active role in Revolutionary events in and around Philadelphia: he was the engrosser who hand-lettered the original Declaration of Independence, he led a rifle battalion at Trenton and Princeton, and he was elected to the Continental Congress, among other things. The items with which he is shown reflect his role in forging the new nation and include the great seal of Pennsylvania and the constitution of that commonwealth, which he helped draft. Also included are law books, which attest to his political life, and a Bible, which may refer to his activity in founding the Society of Free Quakers, an alternative form of Quakerism whose followers had been expelled from the pacifist Religious Society of Friends for participating in the Revolutionary War.

References

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID: 35332

Source/Photographer

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, online database

Licensing

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current	04:20, 27 June 2016	1,283 × 1,600 (171 KB)	INS Pirat	even higher resolution (same source)
	20:24, 13 January 2014	960 × 1,197 (165 KB)	ALH	higher resolution version from the museum's website
	12:17, 10 May 2008	250 × 314 (83 KB)	Freequaker	Timothy Matlack by Charles Wilson Peale, 1790 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A radical Whig, Matlack played an active role in Revolutionary events in and around Philadelphia: he was the engrosser who hand-lettered the original Declaration of Independence, h
	11:22, 10 May 2008	590 × 743 (46 KB)	Freequaker	Timothy Matlack by Charles Wilson Peale, 1790 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A radical Whig, Matlack played an active role in Revolutionary events in and around Philadelphia: he was the engrosser who hand-lettered the original Declaration of Independence, h