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Robert Broome

by Anson Dickinson

ca. 1810
watercolor on ivory
sight 7/8 x 7/8 in. (2.3 x 2.1 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dickinson, Ansonnotes
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
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127.0 x 101.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Copley, John Singletonnotes
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
watercolor on ivory
image: sight 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.7 x 6.1 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Peale, Raphaellenotes
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
watercolor and gouache on paper
9 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. (23.5 x 36.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Richards, William Trost 
Rocky Farm, Newport

by Edward M. Bannister

1891
oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (26.0 x 41.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Bannister, Edward M. 
Romantic Landscape

by Robert Scott Duncanson

1871
oil on canvas
7 1/8 x 19 in. (18.1 x 48.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Duncanson, Robert Scott 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak

by Joseph Bartholomew Kidd

oil on canvas
26 1/4 x 20 3/4 in. (66.8 x 52.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Kidd, Joseph Bartholomewnotes
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
oil on paperboard
22 7/8 x 26 1/4 in. (58.2 x 66.6 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
Roses

by John Ferguson Weir

1898
oil on canvas
20 x 30 1/8 in. (50.8 x 76.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Weir, John Ferguson 
Roses

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

1890
oil on canvas
22 1/4 x 31 3/8 in. (56.6 x 79.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
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