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Title/Occupation | Governor (1796-97), Trustee NCC |
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Address | 6 The Strand | |
Artist | Robert Edge Pine | |
Date painted | 1784-1788 | |
Credit | Winterthur Museum | |
Married | Mary Read (1745-1820, m1769, sister of George Read Sr.) | |
Parents | William Bedford & Catherin Jacquett | |
Children | None | |
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Courtesy, Winterthur Museum, Portrait, Gunning Bedford, Sr. by Robert Edge Pine, 1784-1788, Philadelphia, PA, Oil paint, Canvas, Gift of Henry Francis du Pont, 1958.3042 Wikipedia The Smithsonian database lists 16 Gunning Bedford paintings: Sr, Jr, and undetermined. There is a painting listed of Gunning Bedford, Sr., by Charles Willson Peale and owned by the Kennedy Gallery in New York. It was sold by them to an unnamed collector from Delaware. ![]() George Read Sr. wrote letters about Bedford's courtship of Read's sister Polly [Mary?], Read's mother's opposition, Read's support, and William T. Read's positive description of Bedford: "integrity, coupled with great benevolence and with very bland and kindly manners, made him highly popular." |