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The Artist's Family

ca. 1800
Watercolor on ivory in ebonized frame
2 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (7 x 8.6 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mrs. John Faucheraud Grimke (Mary Moore Smith)

1791
watercolor on ivory
2 x 1 1/2 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

 UnratedAnonymous
Mrs. John Cordes (Catherine Cordes)

1792
watercolor on ivory
1 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

 UnratedAnonymous
Mrs. Alexander Rose (Margaret Smith)

ca. 1788
watercolor on ivory
sight 2 x 1 5/8 in. (5.1 x 4.0 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Margaret Smith (1747-?) was the thirteenth child of a prominent New York Loyalist, Judge William Smith (1728-1793), and his first wife, Mary Hett. Her marriage in 1779 to the South Carolina merchant and patriot Alexander Rose likely put great strain on both families. The Roses remained in South Carolina and had at least two miniatures painted by...
UnratedAnonymous
Mary Watson

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

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

 UnratedAnonymous
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.
UnratedAnonymous
Joseph Watson

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

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

 UnratedAnonymous
John Deas

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

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

 UnratedAnonymous
James Stanyarne

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

Gibbes Museum of Art

Charleston, SC

 UnratedAnonymous
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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