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Mr. Nichol

by John Wesley Jarvis

1809
watercolor on ivory
sight 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.5 x 6.0 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Jarvis, John Wesley 
Mr. Rutherford

by Henry Inman

ca. 1820
watercolor on ivory
sight 3 x 2 1/2 in. (7.6 x 6.3 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Inman, Henry 
Mr. Veacock

by Thomas Birch

1812
watercolor on paper
image (oval): 3 1/16 x 2 9/16 in. (7.8 x 6.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Birch, Thomas 
Mrs. Abraham Van Santvoort of New York

by Ezra Ames

ca. 1805
Watercolor on ivory
Oval: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. (8.0 x 6.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Ames, Ezra 
Mrs. Alexander Rose (Margaret Smith)

by Pierre Henri

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.

Henri, Pierrenotes
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...
Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich

by Ellen Emmet Rand

1906
Oil on canvas
44 3/4 x 35 1/8 in. (113.8 x 89.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Rand, Ellen Emmet 
Mrs. Benjamin Silliman

by Henry Colton Shumway

ca. 1835
watercolor on ivory
3 1/4 x 2 3/8 in. (8.3 x 6.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Shumway, Henry Coltonnotes
Susan Huldah Forbes, niece of painter John Trumbull, married Benjamin Silliman in 1840, and gave birth to seven children. Her husband became an editor of the American Journal of Science, established the School of Applied Chemistry at Yale University in 1847 (now known as the Sheffield School of Science), and was a founding member of the National...
Mrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe)

by Philippe Abraham Peticolas

1797
watercolor on ivory
2 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. (6.5 x 5.4 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Peticolas, Philippe Abrahamnotes
Philippe Abraham Peticolas painted Mary Baldwin (1767-1808) in Winchester, Virginia, at age thirty, twelve or thirteen years after her marriage to Dr. Cornelius Baldwin. She was the daughter of Gerard and Margaret Briscoe, whose portraits were painted by Charles Peale Polk. Mary had ten children and was the grandmother of Mary Julia Baldwin, for whom...
Mrs. Edmund C. Tarbell

by Edmund Charles Tarbell

1933
oil on canvas
45 1/8 x 38 1/4 in. (114.7 x 97.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tarbell, Edmund Charles 
Mrs. Francis Barton Stockton

by Hugh Bridport

ca. 1840
watercolor on ivory
2 5/8 x 2 in. (6.7 x 5.1 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Bridport, Hughnotes
Mrs. Stockton was the niece of Stephen Decatur, a commodore in the United States Navy who fought in the War of 1812. She lived in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Francis B. Stockton, who also fought in the war.
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