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Robert Broome by Anson Dickinson ca. 1810 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dickinson, Anson | Robert Broome was the uncle of Robert Munroe, who in turn was the great-uncle of the donor, Helen Munroe. Helen Munroe was at one time the director of publications at the Smithsonian Institution. This miniature was worn as a stickpin by the well-dressed owner. Stickpins were among the flashiest accessories available to a gentleman of this time, and... | |
Robert Hooper by John Singleton Copley ca. 1770-1772 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Copley, John Singleton | Mr. Hooper was the son of Robert King Hooper, who owned a fishing fleet that worked out of Marblehead, Massachusetts. The younger man already sports the rotund physique that Copley had captured in a portrait of Hooper's father years earlier. Behind him, the sea, visible through an open window, recalls the source of his family’s riches. Robert had... | |
Robert Oliphant by Raphaelle Peale 1799 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Peale, Raphaelle | Robert Oliphant was the oldest son of William Oliphant, a wealthy Philadelphia landowner. Robert’s sister had her miniature painted by James Peale in 1795. Some time after this miniature was painted, Robert moved to Norfolk, Virginia, but his whereabouts after that are unknown. Both miniatures descended in his sister Elizabeth’s family until they... | |
Rocky Cove by William Trost Richards 1876 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Richards, William Trost | ||
Rocky Farm, Newport by Edward M. Bannister 1891 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Bannister, Edward M. | ||
Romantic Landscape by Robert Scott Duncanson 1871 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Duncanson, Robert Scott | ||
Rose-breasted Grosbeak by Joseph Bartholomew Kidd oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew | Around 1830, John James Audubon commissioned the Scottish artist Joseph Bartholomew Kidd to copy many of his paintings of birds. Audubon hoped to use these paintings in a natural history gallery that would tour England. The project was never completed, however, in part because Kidd took too long to finish the work. In this painting, Kidd directly... | |
Roseate Spoonbills, Study For Book Concealing Coloration In The Animal Kingdom by Abbott Handerson Thayer ca. 1905-1909 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Thayer, Abbott Handerson | ||
Roses by John Ferguson Weir 1898 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Weir, John Ferguson | ||
Roses by Abbott Handerson Thayer 1890 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Thayer, Abbott Handerson |
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