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English: Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Peter F. Rothermel (1812–1895)
Title
English: Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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
date QS:P571,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 200.6 cm (79 in); width: 154.9 cm (61 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,200.66U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,154.94U174728
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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