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![]() | Captain John Reynolds 1754-58 National Maritime Museum London, Greater London, UK | ![]() A half-length portrait to right wearing captain's full-dress uniform over three years, 1748-67. A ship is shown in the right background flying a Union flag and with an ornately carved stern. Another ship flying the Union flag is implied on the far right firing a salute. A classical column is suggested on the left with a swag of red cloth bordered in... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Elizabeth Rothmahler 1757 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Gabriel Manigault 1757 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Hannah Dart c. 1765 Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Winston-Salem, NC | ![]() For more than three decades, Jeremiah Theus was the Charleston’s leading painter. Little is known of Theus's training; he immigrated to South Carolina with his Swiss Protestant family in 1736 and by 1740 advertised himself, as did many other colonial painters, as one who would paint portraits, landscapes, and crests and coats of arms. More than 150... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | John Dart ca. 1772–74 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Lt. Colonel Barnard Elliott ca. 1766 Gibbes Museum of Art Charleston, SC | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Mary Trusler c. 1760 Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX | ![]() Painted about five years into Mary Trusler's second marriage, her portrait reveals Jeremiah Theus's direct observation of his Charlestonian sitter, her desire for elegant representation, and his own stylistic difficulties. Theus, who had immigrated to South Carolina from Switzerland with his family as a teenager, relied heavily on the use of... | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Mrs. Gabriel Manigault 1757 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Mrs. Jacob Motte (Rebecca Brewton) ca. 1758 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Mrs. John Dart ca. 1772–74 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Jeremiah Theus