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Roses Still Life

by Robert Scott Duncanson

ca. 1842-1848
oil on canvas
24 x 19 in. (61.0 x 48.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Duncanson, Robert Scott 
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 Walter Shirlaw

1888
oil on canvas
24 3/8 x 19 1/2 in. (61.8 x 49.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Shirlaw, Walter 
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 
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 
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...
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 
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. 
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 
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...
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