PreviewDescriptionArtist
Notes
Patience Lovell Wright

by Robert Edge Pine

oil on canvas
125cm x 101.6cm (49 3/16" x 40")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Pine, Robert Edgenotes
Patience Wright, a Quaker widow from Bordentown New Jersey, looked to support her children by modeling in wax to produce lifelike figures of celebrities, exhibiting them with success in Philadelphia and New York. After a fire destroyed much of her collection, she went to England in 1772, where her artistic skill and engaging bluntness won her a...
William Starke Rosecrans

by Samuel Woodson Price

1868
oil on canvas
Other: 76 x 64cm (29 15/16 x 25 3/16") Frame: 92.7 x 80 x 7.6cm (36 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 3")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Price, Samuel Woodsonnotes
Description: Portrait of William Starke Rosecrans wearing his military uniform, his body facing front, his head turned to the left, and his gaze directed off to the left. He has a beard and moustache.
Jefferson Davis

by George Lethbridge Saunders

1849
Watercolor on ivory
Feigned Oval: 17 x 14cm (6 11/16 x 5 1/2") Case Open: 19.4 x 33 x 1.3cm (7 5/8 x 13 x 1/2")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Saunders, George Lethbridge 
George Brinton Mcclellan

by Julian Scott

1888
oil on canvas
101.6 x 76.5 x 3.8cm (40 x 30 1/8 x 1 1/2")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Scott, Julian 
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,...
Joel Chandler Harris

by Lucy May Stanton

c. 1914
Watercolor on ivory
Ivory: 17.8 x 12.7cm (7 x 5"), Accurate Frame: 33.7 x 28.6cm (13 1/4 x 11 1/4")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Stanton, Lucy Maynotes
Joel Chandler Harris, a journalist, humorist, and author of the Uncle Remus stories, lived across the street in Atlanta, Georgia, from Lucy May Stanton when she was a child. She often sat on his knee, listening to his animal stories. When she first asked to paint him in 1906, he queried her desire to paint an old buzzard like me. This is a second,...
A Virgin

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

1892-1893
oil on canvas
229.7 x 182.5 cm.

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
William Wirt

by Cephas Thompson

c. 1809-1810
oil on canvas
Frame: 107 x 90.2 x 8.9cm (42 1/8 x 35 1/2 x 3 1/2")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Thompson, Cephasnotes
Description: Portrait of William Wirt wearing a classical drapery, his body facing almost forward, his head turned slightly to the right, and his gaze directed off to the right.
Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt

by Cephas Thompson

c. 1809-1810
oil on canvas
Frame: 111.1 x 94.6 x 6.4cm (43 3/4 x 37 1/4 x 2 1/2")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Thompson, Cephasnotes
Description: Portrait of Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt seated with her body turned to the left, her head slightly tilted, and her gaze directed down. She wears a white Empire-waist dress with short sleeves. Her dark hair is swept back from her face with ringlets falling across her forehead.
Charles Lee

by Cephas Thompson

c. 1810-1811
oil on canvas
70cm x 57cm (27 9/16" x 22 7/16")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Thompson, Cephas 
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