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Camp Bed
1777-1785
1871.8
Wood, canvas, iron
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Abraham Keteltas Beekman (1756-1816)
Title
Abraham Keteltas Beekman (1756-1816)
Date
1766
Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
Overall: 36 x 28 in. ( 91.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of the Beekman Family Association
Object Number
1962.70
Gallery Label
This is one of the six portraits of his eldest children James Beekman (1732-1807), commissioned from John Durand in the 1760s. John Durand (1731-1805) first began working in Virginia in 1765, but by 1766 had moved to New York City to paint portraits of the Beekman children for their father James Beekman. Durand
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