Smithsonian American Art Museum
Mrs. George Willig
Philippe Abraham Peticolas, born Meziers, France 1760-died Petersburg, VA 1841 · 1804
George Willig (1764-1851) was a German expatriate who, arriving in Philadelphia in 1794, took over the first music publishing company in America. He published sheet music through the 1840s, and his son, George Jr., ran a Baltimore branch of the firm from 1829 to 1879. Given Peticolas’s serious interest in music, it seems appropriate that he would paint the music publisher’s wife.
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