Ralph Wormeley V (1745-1806)

Date: ca. 1755-1758

Ralph Wormeley V was the son of Ralph Wormeley IV and Jane Bowles Wormeley of Rosegill. He married Eleanor Tayloe of Mount Airy in 1772. He was also painted as young man by Robert Edge Pine.

Dimensions: 27 x 25 in. (68.58 x 63.5 cm.)

The subject wears a gold jacket trimmed with silver embroidered. A queue ribbon is visible behind his neck. He holds a hat filled with three peaches. The hat rests on a stone plinth. He is pictured outdoors.

Family: Wormeley
Decade: 1750s
Credits: Courtesy of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, 1958.30.