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Peter Bounetheau

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877

Both this miniature and Peter Bounetheau (1946.3.3) are nearly identical portraits of the artist’s father in the robes of a magistrate. Peter Bounetheau had served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War, and thereafter Benjamin Franklin appointed him the postmaster of Charleston, South Carolina. For both paintings, the artist copied a miniature of his father painted by Henry Benbridge as inspiration.

Date

ca. 1820

Type

Painting-Miniature

Medium

watercolor on ivory

Department

SAAM

Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Object number

saam_1946.3.2

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Du Pré Bounetheau