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American family: a portrait of the Cadwalader family

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Dr Chris McAuliffe, curator of the exhibition America: painting a nation, on Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of the 18th-century Philadelphian Cadwalader famiy. The portrait suggests the emergence of the modern family unit.