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William Wragg

1750/1760
oil on canvas
Framed: 19 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 5/8 in. (48.74 x 43.66 x 4.13 cm) 15 5/8 x 13 1/2 in. 39.7 x 34.3 cm

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit, MI

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Samuel Jones's Son

ca. 1760
Oil
29 7/16 x 24 7/16 in. (74.7 x 62.1 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

notes
Swiss by birth, Jeremiah Theus was the most popular portrait painter to elite society in colonial South Carolina by the mid-eighteenth century. Like many artists of this period, he also taught drawing and did ornamental work and portrait painting in order to supplement his income. He prospered in Charleston and also traveled to the residences of his...
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Portrait Of Elizabeth Prioleau Roupell

1753
oil on canvas
Height: 75.88 cm (29.88 in.), Width: 63.66 cm (25.06 in.)

High Museum of Art

Atlanta, GA

notes
Description: Half-length portrait of Mrs. Roupell wearing a blue satin gown with looped pearls at her chest and a pink satin shawl around her left arm.
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Polly Ouldfield Of Winyah

ca. 1761
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Polly Ouldfield was born into a life of privilege. Her father was a member of the Commons House of Assembly in London, and records indicate that he owned land in Georgetown in 1752. Polly's husband was a landowner from Charleston, South Carolina, who served as Commissary of Militia in the Georgetown District during the Revolutionary War. (Middleton,...
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Mrs. Thomas Lynch

1755
oil on canvas
29 7/8 x 24 7/8"

Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Winston-Salem, NC

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Mrs. John Dart

ca. 1772–74
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mrs. Jacob Motte (Rebecca Brewton)

ca. 1758
Watercolor on ivory
1 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (3.5 x 3.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mrs. Gabriel Manigault

1757
oil on canvas
30 x 24 3/4 in. (76.2 x 62.9 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mary Trusler

c. 1760
oil on canvas
Overall: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas, TX

notes
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...
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Lt. Colonel Barnard Elliott

ca. 1766
oil on canvas
50 x 40 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

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