Charles Willson Peale

Deborah Hibernia O'Donnell Poore, Baltimore (acquired directly from the artist)

Charles Elliott Poore, Baltimore (acquired by descent from the above)

Charles Oliver Iselin, New York (acquired from the above circa 1910-15)

Hope Goddard Iselin, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1932)

Baltimore Museum of Art (acquired as a gift from the above in 1955)

Sotheby's, New York, 22 October 1981, lot 7 (consigned by the above)

R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago

Private Collection, Georgia (acquired in 1991)

Acquired by descent from the above in 2024 by the present owner

Charles Coleman Sellers, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, Philadelphia, 1952, no. 244, p. 73

Charles Coleman Sellers, Charles Willson Peale with Patrons and Populace, Philadelphia, 1969, no. SP 36, pp. 61-62

Captain Thomas Elliott, a founder and the first president of the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore, commissioned a suite of family portraits from Charles Willson Peale, depicting himself alongside members of his immediate family, including his wife, daughter, and granddaughter. Painted circa 1796–97, the present work portrays Elliott with his granddaughter, Debora Hibernia O’Donnell. The painting later descended through the O’Donnell family before entering the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, where it remained from 1955 until 1981.