English: A young officer recounts his experiences in the Mexican War of 1848 to a veteran of the American Revolution. The persons represented are members of the artist's family: the old man is his great-uncle Richard Caton; his mother and father appear as the middle-aged couple, his elder sister as the young lady, and his brothers as the officers. Discernible on the walls of the Baltimore parlor are a portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale and an engraving of John Trumbull's Signing of the Declaration of Independence (ca. 1776).
George William Abell, Baltimore, 1842-1894 [mode of acquisition unknown]
Mrs. Francis Theodore Homer [Jennie M. Abell], Baltimore, [mode and date of acquisition unknown]
Mrs. Ferdinand C. Lee [Jane Palfrey Homer], Baltimore [mode and date of acquisition unknown]
Mr. and Mrs. George Jenkins, Baltimore, November 12, 1954 [mode of acquisition unknown]
Walters Art Museum, 1954, by purchase
Exhibition history
The West as America. National Museum of American Art, Washington. 1991-1992. At Home with Art: Painting in American Interiors, 1784-1919. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah. 1995. The American Artist as Painter and Draftsman. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2001. American Stories. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. 2009-2010.
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