More Portraits of William Clark William Clark (1810) Charles
Willson Peale Oil on canvas 23-1/4 x 18-1/8 inches harles
Willson Peale (1741–1827), was famous not only as an artist but
also as the founder and curator of "Peale's Museum" in
Philadelphia, which contained his remarkable collection of
natural history specimens and more than one hundred of his own
portraits of famous contemporaries. William Clark (ca. 1810)
John Wesley Jarvis Oil on canvas 29-3/4 x 25-1/8 inches his
portrait was also painted in or about 1810, when Clark went East
from St. Louis to meet with Nicholas Biddle, whom he had engaged
to write the paraphrase of the captains' expeditionary journals.
The painting purportedly was the work of the eccentric English-
born American artist John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840). John
O'Fallon, Clark's nephew, confirmed that Jarvis's image was
generally considered his uncle's truest likeness. Several copies
are said to have been made for other members of the Clark family
and, like Peale's painting of him, it