# Peter Bounetheau, in Miniatures of the 19th century

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau painted this in about 1820, aged 23. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Smithsonian American Art Museum._

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1820
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Dimensions: sight 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (15.9 x 12.1 cm) oval
- Type: Painting-Miniature
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1946.3.2
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Henry Brintnell Bounetheau](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/henry-brintnell-bounetheau), born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877

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