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![]() | Colonel Elijah Rice 1839 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Colonel Elijah Rice invested heavily in sugar cane in Cuba, as a thriving part of the slave trade before the Civil War. His life ended in tragedy when he and all but one of his fourteen children died of consumption in Cuba. His widow, with her surviving daughter, Amanda, returned to Huntsville, Alabama, where John Wood Dodge painted this piece. The... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Edward S. Dodge 1835 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | George Catlin 1835 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Henry Augustus Coit 1838 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Henry Augustus Coit (born 1800) lived in Cuba as a young man, and for over twenty years, invested in the sugar trade along with his partner, Moses Taylor III. Coit was fluent in Spanish and moved easily in Cuban society. Having made a fortune in the sugar trade, he maintained palatial homes in Havana, Dobbs Ferry, and Saratoga Springs, New York,... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Isaac F. Tyson 1835 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() According to an inscription on the original mount, this miniature was painted while John Wood Dodge was in New York. Little is known about Isaac F. Tysen, except that in 1880 he was a resident of Staten Island, New York. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Isaac John Greenwood I 1832 New York Historical Society New York, NY | ![]() The subject was born in New York, the son of John and Elizabeth (Weaver) Greenwood. He turned to his father's profession, dentistry, in 1818, from which he retired in 1829, at the end of a distinguished career. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | James O. Owens 1832 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Kate Roselie Dodge 1854 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Miss Major 1835 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Mordecai Manuel Noah 1834 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851) was possibly the most influential Jewish figure in the United States during the early nineteenth century. He was a lawyer, journalist, playwright, politician, judge, editor, and surveyor. As a patriot, he supported Americas war with Britain in 1812, and became the United States consul to Tunis. He studied law in South... | Unrated | Anonymous |
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