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Captain John Reynolds

1754-58
oil on canvas
1065 x 865 mm

National Maritime Museum

London, Greater London, UK

notes
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...
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Elizabeth Rothmahler

1757
oil on canvas
29 13/16 x 24 15/16 in. (75.8 x 63.4 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Gabriel Manigault

1757
oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 62.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Hannah Dart

c. 1765
oil on canvas
HOA: 30”, WOA: 25”

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Winston-Salem, NC

notes
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...
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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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Lt. Colonel Barnard Elliott

ca. 1766
oil on canvas
50 x 40 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

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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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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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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. 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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