John Beale Bordley
Artist: Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741 - 1827)
Date: 1770
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States
Description
John Beale Bordley, a close friend of Charles Willson Peale, raised the funds in 1766 to send the young artist to London, where Peale trained under Benjamin West's tutelage. In the stormy years before the American Revolution, Bordley was a Maryland planter, judge, and member of the Governor's Council.












