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Maria Margaretta Oswald

1840–50
Watercolor on ivory in gold case
2 1/4 x 1 11/16 in. (5.6 x 4.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Portrait Of A Gentleman (2)

1840–45
Watercolor on ivory
2 1/4 x 1 11/16 in. (5.6 x 4.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Portrait Of A Gentleman (3)

1825–30
Watercolor on ivory
3 3/16 x 2 5/8 in. (8.2 x 6.7 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Frederick Gore King

ca. 1827
Watercolor on ivory
3 x 2 in. (7.6 x 5.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mrs. Oswald John Cammann (Catherine Navarre Macomb)

ca. 1843
Watercolor on ivory in brown leatherette case with ormolu mat
4 3/16 x 3 5/16 in. (10.5 x 8.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mr. Mckinley

ca. 1840
Watercolor on ivory in gilded copper foliate locket
2 5/8 x 2 3/16 in. (6.7 x 5.6 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mrs. Mckinley

ca. 1840
Watercolor on ivory in gilded copper foliate locket
2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (7 x 5.8 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Levinus Clarkson

1845
Watercolor on ivory in gold-colored metal locket
Sight: 2 3/8 x 2 in. (6 x 5.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Lieutenant John Trumbull Ray

ca. 1830
watercolor on ivory
sight 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. (8.0 x 6.2 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
John Trumbull Ray was the illegitimate son of Captain John Trumbull, one of colonial America’s leading portrait painters. Following the death of his first love, Trumbull had an affair with one of his brother’s servants, a woman named Temperance Ray. She bore a son in 1792 who strongly resembled Trumbull. Trumbull provided money for the boy’s...
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Portrait Of A Young Girl

ca. 1830
watercolor on ivory
sight 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (4.4 x 3.8 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
The young girl in this painting wears a black gown with puffed or “melon” sleeves. Fashionable ladies sometimes inflated these with removable down-filled pillows.
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