Catharine Schaeffer Muhlenberg was the wife of Frederick Muhlenberg, Congressman from Pennsylvania, and the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The portrait was published in Henrietta Meier Oakley and J. C. Schwab, The Muhlenberg Album, (New Haven, CT: Tuttle Press, 1910).
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Date
circa 1790
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medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions
height: 124.5 cm (49 in); width: 96 cm (37.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,124.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,96U174728
Current location
On long-term loan to The Speaker's House Museum, Trappe, Pennsylvania.
Source/Photographer
Lisa Minardi, "Rediscovering the Muhlenberg Family," Antiques & Fine Arts, volume 17, number 2 (Summer 2018), page 111, Gavin Ashworth, photographer.
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This is the pendant portrait to Joseph Wright's 1790 portrait of Frederick Muhlenberg, now at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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