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My Children

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

ca. 1896-1910
oil on canvas
48 1/16 x 60 3/8 in. (122.1 x 153.3 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Thayer, Abbott Handersonnotes
Although Abbott Handerson Thayer's children (Gladys, Mary, and Gerald, left to right) modeled for this painting, it does not look like a standard portrait, and the children's actual identities may have little to do with Thayer's overall aims for the work. The painting was not intended to convey a particular religious content, but its composition and...
The Sisters

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

1884
oil on canvas
54 5/16 x 36 1/4 in. (138 x 92.1 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
Head Of A Boy

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

ca. 1918-1919
Oil on board
25 13/16 x 24 in. (65.5 x 61 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
William Michael Spartali Stillman

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

ca. 1905-1915
oil on canvas
26 15/16 x 24 9/16 in. (68.5 x 62.4 cm) Other: 27 1/4 x 24 3/4in. (69.2 x 62.9cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
Jessie Jay Burge

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

ca. 1880
oil on canvas
19 15/16 x 15 15/16 in. (50.6 x 40.5 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
Chadwick's Dog

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

1874
oil on canvas
20 1/2 x 16 9/16 in. (52 x 42 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
Girl In Fur Hood (Head Of A Woman With Fur-lined Hood)

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

ca. 1908
oil on canvas
21 x 17 1/16 in. (53.3 x 43.3 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
Samuel Jones's Son

by Jeremiah Theus

ca. 1760
Oil
29 7/16 x 24 7/16 in. (74.7 x 62.1 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Theus, Jeremiahnotes
Swiss by birth, Jeremiah Theus was the most popular portrait painter to elite society in colonial South Carolina by the mid-eighteenth century. Like many artists of this period, he also taught drawing and did ornamental work and portrait painting in order to supplement his income. He prospered in Charleston and also traveled to the residences of his...
Elizabeth Rothmahler

by Jeremiah Theus

1757
oil on canvas
29 13/16 x 24 15/16 in. (75.8 x 63.4 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Theus, Jeremiah 
On the Way between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the Mamelukes

by Louis Comfort Tiffany

1872
Oil on canvas
41 3/8 x 68 1/16 in. (105.1 x 172.9 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Tiffany, Louis Comfortnotes
Louis Comfort Tiffany's beginnings as a painter have been overshadowed by his stunning achievements as a decorator and stained-glass designer. Yet this early work, which records the scene in terms of colored light filtering through veils of blowing sand, reveals a sensitivity to luminous colors that would also characterize his later pursuits in other...
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