Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams from Philadelphia in August 1776. He describes going to Mr. Peale's (presumably Charles Willson Peale) house to see a picture of the extended Peale family. Adams describes the picture as well as other portraits and compares them to John Singleton Copley's work, claiming that they are not as good as Copley's but better than Benjamin West's. Adams lists a number of portraits that Peale has painted. Adams also refers to some Peale sculpture, "heads which he has made in Clay, as large as life."; American Philosophical Society
