Edward Shippen (1729-1806), a member of the prominent Shippen family of Philadelphia, was trained as a lawyer in London’s Middle Temple and served on Philadelphia’s Common Council before siding with the American cause in the Revolution. In 1791 he was appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where he served as chief justice from 1799 to 1805. This portrait, one of Gilbert Stuart’s earliest in Philadelphia, was painted at the request of his daughters, one of whom was Sarah Shippen Lea, also portrayed by Stuart. -- Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Paintings to 1945, 2001.
Another of Shippen's daughters, Peggy, married Benedict Arnold.
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