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English: Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses (

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Artist

Peter F. Rothermel (1812–1895)

Title

English: Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses

Object type

painting

Description

English: Painting of Patrick Henry's "If this be treason, make the most of it!" speech against the Stamp Act of 1765

Date

1851

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 200.6 cm (79 in); width: 154.9 cm (61 in)

Collection

Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial

Accession number

76.5.1

Place of creation

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Object history

Commissioned as a benefit for the Philadelphia Art Union in 1851. Joined the collection of Joseph Harrison Jr. ca. 1855; auctioned after his death in 1912. Purchased by Charles L. Hamilton and owned until his death. Hamilton's heirs donated the painting to the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation in April 1959. In a ceremony at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia on April 29, 1959 Governor J. Lindsay Almond accepted the Rothermel painting from the Hamilton family and presented it to James S. Easley, President of the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation. It remains on display with the Foundation today.

Exhibition history

May 1852: U.S. Capitol Rotunda; March–June 1865: Northwestern Sanitary Fair; 1912–1956: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; 1959–1976: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; 1976–present: Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial.

Credit line

Collection of Patrick Henry's Red Hill.

Inscriptions

P. F. Rothermel 1851

References

Smithsonian Art Inventory Catalog, IAP 61502828

Source/Photographer

Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation

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