Joseph Donaldson

Charles Willson Peale

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Donaldson (1750-1799) was born in Ireland and became a merchant in Baltimore. The artist recorded on September 6, 1776: "at Minia: began one of Mr Donaldson." Peale also painted his wife.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art