James Peale
American, 1749 – 1831
Portrait of Madame Dubocq and Her Children, 1807
Oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 41 3/16 in. (129.9 x 104.6 cm.)
57 1/8 x 47 1/8 x 2 11/16 in. (145.1 x 119.7 x 6.8 cm.) (frame)
Gift of Mrs. Aglaé Kent Bixby
Conservation funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency  1932.29.1

All In the Family
Born in Saint Domingue (now known as Haiti), Marie Francoise Trochon de Lorriere Dubocq (1773 – 1847), her husband William, and their two eldest daughters fled the country in 1804 during the Haitian Revolution. The family settled in Philadelphia, drawn by the city’s thriving French expatriate community, and by 1805 William was established as the city’s largest importer and dealer of French china. This portrait accompanied the Dubocq family when they settled in Shippingport, Kentucky in the 1830s and remained in the family until it was given to the Speed by the granddaughter of Marie Aglae Dubocq, shown second from right.