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Summary
Joseph Wright: Portrait of General Giles
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| Title |
Portrait of General Giles |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
portrait  |
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| Description |
Joseph Wright painted General Giles with the insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati prominently displayed on his jacket, indicating that he was a commissioned member of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. The essence of what I discovered was that James Giles was born in 1759/1760, died in 1823 and that he and his wife Hannah resided first in New York City and secondly Bridgeton, New Jersey, where he lived out the remainder of his life working as a lawyer Elmer writes that by 1771, Giles had entered into the study of law with Benjamin Helme in New York City. Sometime before 1776, Giles had joined the Continental Army, for in March of that year “he was appointed a Lieutenant in the 2d or New York Regiment of Artillery, continued in service until 1782, and during some part of the time was Adjutant of the Regiment. In 1780 he was attached to the command of LaFayette, and served under that distinguished friend of America in Virginia.” Giles would live out the rest of his life in his Bridgeton home, dying there on July 23, 1825. |
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| Date | circa 1785 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 752.60 mm (29.62 in); width: 638.30 mm (25.12 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1975.75 |
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| Notes | More info at museum site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | UAFlwNmxMn4Stg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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