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

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

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Portrait of Paul Revere, Jr. (1735–1818)
ArtistFrench, 1770–1852
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • 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
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Metals Study Room
On view

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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.
Published References Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994, p. 378, no. 690. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed below image: Drawn & engrd.[d superscript with period[.] underneath] by St.[t superscript with period [.] underneath] Memin Philada..[a superscript with two periods [..] underneath]
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