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Alexander Contee Hanson, Sr. and his Family, by Robert Edge Pine, c. 1785. Oil on canvas. 59 1/64 x 47 31/64 in. (149.9 x 120.6 cm). Maryland Historical Society
Accession: 1985-62.
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Dorcas Spear Patterson (Mrs. William Patterson) and child, by Robert Edge Pine, c. 1876. Oil on canvas. 36 3/32 x 28 55/64 in. (91.7 x 73.3 cm.) Maryland Historical Society, Accession: 1959-118-44.
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Judge Henry Ridgely, by Robert Edge Pine, c. 1780. Oil on canvas. 26 3/8 x 21 3/8 in. (67.0 x 54.3 cm.) Maryland Historical Society, Accession: 1991-77-1.
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Medium/Discipline: Painting
Birthplace: London, England
Maryland Affiliation: Active while in residence
Prominent Theme: Portraits; Historical Scenes
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Biography: Robert Edge Pine, son of an engraver, was born in London where he painted portraits and historical scenes. After 1772, he worked in Bath, England and in 1782 held a one-man show in London of paintings illustrating Shakespeare. Pine came to America in 1783 to paint portraits of revolutionary heroes and historical scenes. He lived in Philadelphia until he died, but painted in Maryland and Virginia. Robert Morris was a patron. Pine brought with him a plaster cast of the Venus de Medici, which he shared with connoisseurs. Robert Gilmor, prominent Baltimore collector, wrote that Pine and Charles Willson Peale were the earliest painters in Baltimore at the time that he could recollect, and he mentioned Pine's picture of the Carroll family, painted at Annapolis. Pine, a contemporary of Charles Willson Peale, was familiar with the Peales; in "Remembrances" in an issue of The Crayon, Rembrandt Peale notes a visit to Pine's studio.
Art-related Employment: painter
Selected References: Pleasants, J. Hall. Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art), 1945.
Other Publications: Rembrandt Peale Reminiscences [The Crayon]
Maryland Institutions Holding Artworks: Maryland Historical Society
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