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 | Samuel Jones's Son ca. 1760 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |  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... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Elizabeth Rothmahler 1757 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
 | 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 |
 | Mrs. Thomas Lynch 1755 Reynolda House Museum of American Art Winston-Salem, NC | Unrated | Anonymous | |
 | Portrait Of Elizabeth Prioleau Roupell 1753 High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA | 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. | 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 |
 | Lt. Colonel Barnard Elliott ca. 1766 Gibbes Museum of Art Charleston, SC | Unrated | Anonymous | |
 | Polly Ouldfield Of Winyah ca. 1761 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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,... | 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 |
 | William Wragg 1750/1760 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Jeremiah Theus
