Rebecca Lewis Innis (Mrs. Robert Innis, b. 1750)

Rebecca Lewis was the daughter of Warner Lewis and Eleanor Bowles Lewis of Warner Hall. She married Dr. Robert Innis. The subject was also painted as a child by John Wollaston in a double portrait with her brother, Warner Lewis.

Dimensions: 30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. (78.12 x 65.41 cm.)

The subject wears a blue dress. Pearls are intwined in her hair. A pink rose is pinned at her breast and jewel clasps are at her sleeves. She holds a mandolin. Her body is angled towards her left and she looks towards her right. The portrait is signed and dated.

See: Charles Coleman Sellers, “Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace. A Supplement to “Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 59, 3 (1969): 67, 118.