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| Keywords: Timothy Matlack.jpg Artwork Q20634581 creator Charles Willson Peale c 1790 Oil on canvas cm 121 9 101 6 institution Museum of Fine Arts Boston object history exhibition history credit line Peale's portrait of Timothy Matlack honors the sitter's distinguished public career A radical Whig Matlack played an active role in Revolutionary events in and around Philadelphia he was the engrosser who hand-lettered the original Declaration of Independence he led a rifle battalion at Trenton and Princeton and he was elected to the Continental Congress among other things The items with which he is shown reflect his role in forging the new nation and include the great seal of Pennsylvania and the constitution of that commonwealth which he helped draft Also included are law books which attest to his political life and a Bible which may refer to his activity in founding the Society of Free Quakers an alternative form of Quakerism whose followers had been expelled from the pacifist Religious Society of Friends for participating in the Revolutionary War accession number 1998 218 35332 PD-old-100-1923 Paintings by Charles Willson Peale 18th-century portrait paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1790 1790 oil on canvas paintings in the United States Portrait 1790 portrait paintings Male 18th-century oil portraits of sitting men at three-quarter length 1790 Habit à la française in portrait paintings 1790 Revolutionaries Portrait paintings of men sitting on chairs 1790 Slavery in the United States Portrait paintings of sitting men with tables 1790 Timothy Matlack | ||||
