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Alexander Rose

ca. 1788
watercolor on ivory
sight 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (4.1 x 3.2 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Born in Scotland, Alexander Rose (about 1733-?) immigrated with his family to the colonies before the Revolutionary War. He became a merchant and shipowner in Charleston, and an ardent patriot. The Roses have owned Kilravok (pronounced “Kilrock”) Castle, near Inverness, since it was built more than 750 years ago, and are distantly related to the...
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Daniel Robertson

1793
watercolor on ivory
1 5/8 x 1 1/4 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

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Elizabeth Mary Mcpherson (Mrs. James Reid Pringle)

ca. 1792
watercolor on ivory
1 5/8 x 1 1/4 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

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Gouverneur Morris

1798
Watercolor on ivory
2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7 x 5.4 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Isaac Delyon

ca. 1790
Watercolor on ivory
no dimensions avaliable

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

notes
Savannah-born Isaac DeLyon moved to Charleston in the 1760s where he became a saddler and married Rinah Tobias. A royalist in politics, some of his property was amerced, or fined, after the American Revolution.
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James Stanyarne

1791
watercolor on ivory
1 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

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John Deas

ca. 1791
watercolor on ivory
1 7/8 x 1 3/8 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

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Joseph Watson

ca. 1790
watercolor on ivory
2 x 1 1/2 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

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Judith Delyon Cohen

ca. 1790
Watercolor on ivory
no dimensions avaliable

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

notes
A daughter of Abraham DeLyon, who had arrived in Savannah in 1733, and a sister of Isaac, Judith DeLyon married Moses Cohen of Charleston, a merchant and soldier in the Revolution. After his death she married Joseph Abrahams of Savannah.
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Mary Watson

before 1801
watercolor on ivory
1 7/8 x 1 3/8 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

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