| Preview | Description | Artist
  | Notes |
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 | Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard by James David Smillie ca. 1873 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Smillie, James David | |
 | A Conversation Piece by John Rubens Smith between 1794 and 1798 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Smith, John Rubens | |
 | Portrait Of An Unknown Gentleman by John Rubens Smith ca. 1811 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Smith, John Rubens | |
 | Family Group by Frederick R. Spencer 1840 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Spencer, Frederick R. | |
 | Kiss Me And You'll Kiss The 'Lasses by Lilly Martin Spencer 1856 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Spencer, Lilly Martin |  Standing amidst a bountiful harvest of fruits in a well-appointed bourgeois interior, the woman pictured here turns from her work to engage an unseen interloper (placed in the position of the viewer) in a playful flirtation. As the title implies, if the interloper tries to kiss her, he will receive a dousing of molasses from the spoon in her hand.... |
 | Mrs. Alexander (Sarah Giraud) Grant by Junius Brutus Stearns ca. 1858 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Stearns, Junius Brutus | |
 | Playing Soldiers by George H. Story 1877 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Story, George H. | By the time this work was painted, painful memories of the Civil War had receded enough in the national consciousness that George Henry Story, who specialized in genre scenes of children, could make battle the focus of childs play. Fighting under the banner of the American flag, the three smiling youngsters embody the patriotic pride and optimism... |
 | The Reprimand. Ah! You Naughty Fawn, You Have Been Eating The Flowers by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1852 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam | |
 | Cattle And Landscape by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1867 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam | |
 | The Arch by Henry Ossawa Tanner 1914 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | h, in which the famous Arc de Triomphe is shown at night, brilliantly illuminated and rising above a crowd gathered at the Place d'Etoile. A rare contemporary French subject in Tanner's oeuvre of predominantly biblical and figural works, The Arch may have related to his turbulent feelings as an American expatriate on the outbreak of World War I. |
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