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Standing Bedouin

by Frederic Edwin Church

1868.
Oil.
Approx. 13 x 10 in. (cm. 33.0 x 25.4)

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Church, Frederic Edwin 
The Carnation

by Thomas Wilmer Dewing

1893.
Oil on wood panel.
50.7 x 39.7 cm.

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Dewing, Thomas Wilmer 
The Silver Goblet (Lucy May Stanton Self-Portrait)

by Lucy May Stanton

1912
Watercolor on ivory
Ivory: 13.7 x 9.5cm (5 3/8 x 3 3/4") Frame: 24.6 x 27.9 x 3.2cm (9 11/16 x 11 x 1 1/4"), Accurate

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Stanton, Lucy Maynotes
Lucy May Stanton was best known for her impressionistic watercolor-on-ivory portrait miniatures. She lived mostly in Georgia, but studied art in Paris around the turn of the century. An advocate for womans suffrage, Stanton was also well known in the art centers of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. She presents herself in this large-scale portrait,...
Thomas B. Clarke

by Charles Frederick Ulrich

1884
Oil on panel
19 3/4 x 17 in.

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Ulrich, Charles Fredericknotes
Thomas B. Clarke, a lace and linen manufacturer in New York, began buying works of art in 1872. Within a decade he became this country's foremost collector of contemporary American art. Clarke was influential in myriad aspects of the New York art world, for he was treasurer of the National Society of Arts, chair of the Union League Club's art...
Thomas Stone

by Robert Edge Pine

c. 1827
Ink wash on illustration board
Image: 9.8cm x 8.2cm (3 7/8" x 3 1/4") Sheet: 26.3cm x 15.3cm (10 3/8" x 6")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Pine, Robert Edgenotes
Thomas Stone (1743 – October 5, 1787) was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He later worked on the committee that formed the Articles of Confederation in 1777. He acted as President of Congress for a short time in 1784.
Thomas Stone (1)

by Robert Edge Pine

c. 1785
oil on canvas
67.5cm x 53.3cm (26 9/16" x 21")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Pine, Robert Edge 
Thomas Sumter

by William G. Armstrong

c. 1835
Ink wash on illustration board
Image: 14.3cm x 15cm (5 5/8" x 5 7/8") Sheet: 27.6cm x 22.9cm (10 7/8" x 9")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Armstrong, William G.notes
Thomas Sumter (August 14, 1734 – June 1, 1832) nicknamed the Carolina Gamecock, was a hero of the American Revolution and went on to become a longtime member of the Congress of the United States. Sumter was born in Virginia in 1734. His father was an emigrant from Wales.
Thunder Clouds, Jamaica

by Frederic Edwin Church

c.1865
Oil.
Approx. 7 x 11 in. (cm. 17.8 x 27.9)

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Church, Frederic Edwin 
Varina Howell Davis

by John Wood Dodge

1849
Watercolor on ivory
6.5 x 5.3cm (2 9/16 x 2 1/16")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Dodge, John Woodnotes
Varina Howell was a young woman of lively intellect and polished social graces who married Jefferson Davis when she was at the age of eighteen. As the wife of the president of the Confederacy, she lived in Richmond during the Civil War and admirably fulfilled her three primary roles as an affectionate spouse to a proud and sensitive husband, an...
Washington Allston

by David Claypoole Johnston

1843
Stipple and line engraving on paper
Image: 16.2 x 13cm (6 3/8 x 5 1/8")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Johnston, David Claypoolenotes
Washington Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina.
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