Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Portrait of Paul Revere, Jr. (1735–1818)

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Artist Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-MéminFrench, 1770–1852

CultureAmerican

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Portrait of Paul Revere, Jr. (1735–1818)

Date1800

PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

MediumMezzotint on laid paper

DimensionsImage: 2 3/16 in. diameter (5.6 cm)
Sheet: 3 3/8 × 3 in. (8.6 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by Alice C. Simkins

Object numberB.84.1

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Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Metals Study Room

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DescriptionCharles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin was a military officer and a member of an aristocratic French family who fled for the United States in the wake of the French Revolution. He arrived in New York in 1793 and was soon in business as a portraitist and engraver. He later worked in Philadelphia and the South, making hundreds of portraits over the course of his career in America. After Napoleon’s defeat, Saint-Mémin returned to France in 1814 to stay. Beginning in 1817, he served as a museum director in Dijon, a position that he held almost continuously until the end of his life.
ProvenancePaul Revere, Jr. (1735–1818), Boston; given to his son, Paul Revere (1760–1813); given to George Revere; given to George Brigham Revere; given to George Otis Revere; given to Herbert Revere; given to Paul Revere; [Bland Gallery, New York, 1951]; [Christie’s, New York, sale 5484, January 21, 1984, lot 84]; purchased by MFAH, 1984.
Exhibition History"Radicals and Revolutionaries: America's Founding Fathers," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 10–May 28, 2018.
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