RevolutionCrossroads/si_us_revolutionary_era_collections huggingface dataset:
Nathanial Boothe Nichols
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Silhouette
Date: ca. 1800-1815
Artist: Unidentified
Sitter: Nathaniel Boothe Nichols
Medium: hollow cut: paper over cloth
Dimensions: image: 3 x 1 3/4 in. (7.6 x 4.5 cm) sight: 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (8.9 x 7 cm) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from National Museum of History and Technology
Topics: Men
Portraits
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Mrs. James Smith and Grandson
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Date: 1776
Artist: Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827
Sitter: Mrs. James Smith
Mrs. James Smith
Campbell Smith
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 3/8 x 29 1/4 in. (92.4 x 74.3 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Levering Smith, Jr. and museum purchase
Topics: Women
Amusements
Reading
Recreation
Older people
Men
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Portraits
Children
History
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Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials H. D. C.
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: ca. 1795
Artist: Unidentified
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: sight 2 1/2 x 2 in. (6.4 x 5.1 cm) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rene Muller
Topics: Men
Portraits
Luce Center Label: Around 1794, the style of powdering hair fell out of favor. In this miniature, the sitter’s long white and gray hair, possibly pulled back in a “pigtail queue,” marks the change from British aristocratic fashion to new trends set by young Americans. The casual hair, assertive expression, and sensual mouth express this gentleman’s confidence, and perhaps even imply a mischievous streak.
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Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials C. B.
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: ca. 1795
Artist: Unidentified
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: sight 2 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (5.4 x 6.7 cm) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rene Muller
Topics: Men
Portraits
Luce Center Label: Although this miniature gives the sitter’s initials as “CB,” the man’s identity is unknown. His clothes and posture, however, imply that he was a gentleman who knew the importance of dress at the end of the eighteenth century. The artist elongated the man’s torso and head to call attention to his collar, the blue and red striped shirt, and the ruffles of his white cravat. With his shoulders pressed back and his head held high, this man asserts that he is nothing less than a gentleman prepared for the new century.
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Mourning Miniature for E. W.
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: ca. 1800
Artist: Unidentified
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: sight 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (5.4 x 4.3 cm) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rene Muller
Topics: Water
Landscapes
Animals
Architecture
Figure female
Sorrow
Domestic
State of being
Sheep
Emotions
Dwellings
Luce Center Label: Miniature paintings memorializing a friend or family member grew popular in the nineteenth century when the death of Prince Albert sent Queen Victoria into deep mourning. A name and death date on a locket, pin, or ring marked the passing of a loved one, and artists sometimes mixed a lock of the deceased person’s hair in with the pigment. The paintings often showed the bereaved person next to a tomb or cinerary urn, as in Mourning Locket for A. R. and Mourning Ring, and sometimes included symbols of grieving such as a dove or weeping willow.
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Master Peters
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: 1804
Artist: Joseph Wood, born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830
Sitter: Master Peters
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: sight 2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.8 x 5.6 cm) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift of Douglas K.S. Hyland
Topics: Men
Portraits
Luce Center Label: The Peters family played a prominent role in Philadelphia during the early nineteenth century. This portrait was originally attributed to Edward Greene Malbone, but research has since proved it to be the work of Joseph Wood.
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Portrait of a Gentleman
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Silhouette
Date: ca. 1805
Artist: Unidentified
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: hollow cut: white paper on black card
Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 3 in. (9 x 7.5 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Katherine G. Eirk
Topics: Men
Portraits
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Portrait of a Gentleman
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Silhouette
Date: ca. 1805
Artist: Unidentified
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: hollow cut: tan paper on black card
Dimensions: sight 3 3/4 x 3 in. (9.6 x 7.5 cm.) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Katherine G. Eirk
Topics: Men
Portraits
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Portrait of a Lady
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Silhouette
Date: ca. 1805
Artist: Unidentified
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: hollow cut: white paper on black card
Dimensions: sight 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (7.2 x 5.8 cm.) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Katherine G. Eirk
Topics: Women
Portraits
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Captain John H. Seward
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: ca. 1790
Artist: Unidentified
Sitter: Captain John H. Seward
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: sight 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (4.2 x 3.3 cm) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ruth Pondrom
Topics: Occupations
Men
Portraits
Captain
Military
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The Battle at Bunker's Hill near Boston June 7th 1775
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Graphic Arts-Print
Date: 1798
Artist: G. T. Muller, n.d.
Copy after: John Trumbull, born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843
Publisher: A. C. De Poggi
Medium: engraving on paper
Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 34 in. (65.1 x 86.4 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Olin Dows
Topics: American Revolution (1775-1783)
History
The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack of Quebec December 1775
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Graphic Arts-Print
Date: 1798
Artist: J. T. Clemens, n.d.
Copy after: John Trumbull, born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843
Medium: engraving on paper
Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 34 in. (65.1 x 86.4 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Olin Dows
The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar in the Morning of the 27 of November 1781
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Graphic Arts-Print
Date: 1799
Artist: William Sharp, English, born London, England 1749-died London, England 1824
Copy after: John Trumbull, born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843
Medium: engraving
Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 34 in. (65.1 x 86.4 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Olin Dows
Topics: History
Portrait of Adelia Ellender
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Folk Art
Date: ca. 1803-1805
Artist: Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825
Sitter: Adelia Ellender
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 26 1/4 x 21 1/8 in. (66.7 x 53.7 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
Topics: Women
Portraits
Children
Luce Center Label: Adelia Ellender lived in Baltimore, Maryland, where her father was a plasterer. Her dress follows the custom in this period of portraying children as miniature adults. The berries in her hand and the butterfly hovering in a rosebush nearby symbolize not only her childhood innocence but her eventual transformation into a lady.
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Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Folk Art
Date: ca. 1810
Artist: Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825
Sitter: Barbara Baker Murphy
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21 3/4 x 17 5/8 in. (55.3 x 44.8 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sol and Lillian Koffler
Topics: Women
Portraits
Gallery Label: Joshua Johnson, a self-trained artist and former slave, is the earliest documented professional African American painter. His sitters were Captain John Murphy and his wife, Irish immigrants who lived in Baltimore, where Johnson painted many merchants, seamen, and their families. In these portraits--intended to hang side-by-side--the artist delighted in fine details, from the captain's artfully arranged curls to his wife's sheer lace collar.
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Portrait of Sea Captain John Murphy
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Folk Art
Date: ca. 1810
Artist: Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825
Sitter: John Murphy
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (54.6 x 44.5 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff
Topics: Occupations
Transportation
Men
Portraits
Captain
Exhibition Label: Joshua Johnson, a self-trained artist and former slave, is the earliest documented professional African American painter. His sitters were Captain John Murphy and his wife, Irish immigrants who lived in Baltimore, where Johnson painted many merchants, seamen, and their families. In these portraits--intended to hang side-by-side--the artist delighted in fine details, from the captain's artfully arranged curls to his wife's sheer lace collar.
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Joseph Curwen
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: 1804
Artist: Edward Greene Malbone, born Newport, RI 1777-died Savannah, GA 1807
Sitter: Joseph Curwen
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: sight 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (7.3 x 5.7 cm) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Topics: Men
Portraits
Luce Center Label: Joseph Curwen (1778-1848) was a British-born businessman who settled in Philadelphia. Edward Greene Malbone maintained an account book in 1804, and the artist was paid for this miniature in April of that year.
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Membership Certificate, the Female Charitable Asylum
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Graphic Arts-Print
Date: ca. 1803
Artist: Eliza Cox Akin, died Philadelphia, PA 1834
Medium: engraving on silk
Dimensions: plate: 11 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. (28.1 x 18.9 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund
Topics: Female and child
Orphan
Figure group
State of being
Delightful task 'to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot —
Happily exemplified in the efforts of the Ladies of Newburyport, who have laudably established the Female Charitable ASYLUM, for the protection of indigent ORPHANS.
————— Mrs. Arin furnishes each member with a specimen of her abilities in the graphic Art, emblematic of the institution.
M rs Elizabeth Wood, was received a Member the 12 th day of June 1803.
Attest Mary Board Sec d Eleven o'clock P.M. Directress.
Portrait of a Gentleman
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: ca. 1790
Artist: John Trumbull, born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: oil on wood
Dimensions: sight 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (8.9 x 8.9 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Topics: Men
Portraits
Luce Center Label: This portrait of an unknown gentleman was painted while the artist was in London in the late eighteenth century. It shows an older, distinguished man with a powdered wig and extravagant cravat.
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John Jauncey Ketchum
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: ca. 1795
Artist: Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02
Sitter: John Jauncey Ketchum
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: 3 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (8.6 x 6.0 cm) oval
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Albert A. Best, Edison, N.J.
Topics: Men
Portraits
Luce Center Label: John Jauncey Ketchum (1770-1841) was born on Bermuda, the sixth generation of his family to inhabit that island. In 1795 he married a distant relative, Susannah Jauncey (1772-1861), in New York, which may have been the occasion for which this miniature was painted. The back of this locket is adorned with the initials “JK” in gold filigree, and interwoven locks of hair, possibly those of the newlyweds. The couple returned to Bermuda, raising eight children, and after Ketchum’s death Susannah returned to New York.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Folk Art
Date: ca. 1780-1830
Artist: Pedro Antonio Fresquís, born 1749-died 1831
Medium: water-based paint on wood
Dimensions: 18 5/8 x 10 3/4 x 7/8 in. (47.3 x 27.3 x 2.2 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Religion
Bible, N.T.
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Portrait of a Man
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Folk Art
Date: early 19th century
Artist: Unidentified
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 29 3/8 x 24 5/8 in. (74.7 x 62.5 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Men
Portraits
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Portrait of a Man
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Folk Art
Date: early 19th century
Attributed to: Jacob Maentel, born Kassel, Germany 1763-died New Harmony, IN 1863
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: watercolor, heightened with white, on paper
Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 5 5/8 in. (22.6 x 14.4 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Men
Portraits
[None]
Portrait of a Man
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Drawing
Folk Art
Date: ca. late 18th century
Attributed to: J. Seymour, n.d.
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: pen and colored inks and watercolor on paper mounted on paperboard with whalebone pieces forming border
Dimensions: sheet: 4 3/8 x 3 7/8 in. (11.0 x 9.9 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Boats and boating
Architecture
Men
Tools
Telescopes
Portraits
Windows
Detail
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In Memory of Margaret L Bates
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Drawing
Folk Art
Date: after 1805
Artist: Unidentified
Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and glitter on paperboard
Dimensions: 17 x 19 5/8 in. (43.2 x 49.8 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Water
Trees
Coasts
Architecture
Figure group
Religion
Landscapes
Primitive
Willow tree
Monuments
Tomb
Angels
Mourning
In Memory of Margaret A. Bates Who died Aug r 27/1803 Aged 7 months.
Heaven saw the lovely blossom With radiant lustre bloom, And love, the spotless plant pure To grace the conclave bloom. Death's shafts but to renew with The life that triumphs o'er the tomb.
Dome-Top Box with Straw Marquetry
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Decorative Arts
Folk Art
Date: ca. 1800-1850
Artist: Unidentified
Medium: painted wood, straw, paper, and brass
Dimensions: 7 x 15 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. (17.1 x 40.3 x 23.4 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Architecture
Domestic
Containers
Dwellings
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Painted Box
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Decorative Arts
Folk Art
Date: ca. 1800-1850
Artist: Unidentified
Medium: painted wood and paper
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 14 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. (15.9 x 35.9 x 22.0 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Figure female
Containers
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Masonic Regalia Box
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Decorative Arts
Folk Art
Date: ca. 1780
Artist: Unidentified
Medium: painted wood and iron
Dimensions: 10 x 20 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (25.4 x 51.4 x 26.6 cm)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Candlestick
Masonic
Containers
Emblems
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Saint Anthony of Padua
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Folk Art
Date: late 18th century
Artist: Eighteenth-Century Novice, active late 18th century
Medium: oil on pine panel
Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (34.9 x 23.5 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Topics: Religion
Saints
Bible, N.T.
St. Anthony
Jesus Christ
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The Misses Mary and Hannah Murray
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Date: 1806
Artist: John Trumbull, born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843
Sitter: Hannah Murray
Mary Murray
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 1/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.9 x 127.3 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by an anonymous donor and Miss Emily Tuckerman
Topics: Women
Books and reading
Artists' tools
Artist's brush
Portraits
Family
Art tool
Siblings
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Hermia and Helena
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Date: before 1818
Artist: Washington Allston, born Georgetown, SC 1779-died Cambridgeport, MA 1843
Sitter: Hermia
Helena
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 3/8 x 25 1/4 in. (77.2 x 64.2 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, and the National Institute
Topics: Women
Amusements
Reading
Landscapes
Literature
Recreation
Waterfalls
Shakespeare
Figure group
Portraits
Midsummer Night's Dream
Gallery Label: Washington Allston said that this painting represented "the singleness and unity of friendship." He posed the two women so that they suggest one figure, and they read from a shared book. In Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena eloquently describes her friendship with Hermia in the third act: "So we grew together, / Like to a double cherry . . . / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem." Like many Americans of his time, Allston was educated in the classics. He painted Hermia and Helena in England when the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reviving Shakespeare's plays. A friend of Allston's, Coleridge felt that Shakespeare expressed human sentiment perfectly.Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
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Don José Mas Ferrer
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Date: ca. 1795
Artist: José Campeche y Jordán, born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809
Sitter: Don Jose Mas Ferrer
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 16 3/8 in. (54.0 x 41.7 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
Topics: Weapons
Cabinet
Swords
Letters
Men
Portraits
Furnishings
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Virgen de Monserrate
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Date: ca. 1775-1825
Artist: Unidentified (Puerto Rican)
Medium: oil on canvas mounted on wood panel
Dimensions: image: 7 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (18.8 x 13.8 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
Topics: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Religion
Bible, N.T.
Jesus Christ
Luce Center Label: In this devotional painting the Virgin is shown seated with the Christ child in her lap. Behind the figures rise the Monserrate Mountains, near Barcelona, where a Benedictine abbey was built. Monserrate, or “sawed mountain,” refers to the vertical fissures caused by earthquakes in the mountains. Spanish immigrants brought images of the Virgin of Monserrate to Puerto Rico. The most famous miracle credited to her on the island took place near Hormigueros, when the Virgin interceded to save a man from a charging bull. Her image was popular in Puerto Rico, where carved and painted versions were widely copied from mass-produced prints and prayer cards.
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Isabel O'Daly
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Date: 1808
Artist: José Campeche y Jordán, born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809
Sitter: Isabel O'Daly
Medium: oil on wood
Dimensions: 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (25.2 x 19.1 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
Topics: Women
Portraits
Luce Center Label: José Campeche made this portrait of Isabel O'Daly (1772-1840) when she was thirty-six years old. Isabel was the daughter of Thomas O'Daly, an Irish engineer who came to San Juan in 1765 to complete the massive fortifications of the city. Campeche had a gift for painting the effects of light and shadow, and his naturalistic modeling captured the indentation above Isabel's upper lip and the prominence of her chin.
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Portrait of a Gentleman
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting-Miniature
Date: ca. 1810
Artist: Unidentified (Puerto Rican)
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm) diam.
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
Topics: Men
Portraits
Luce Center Label: The unidentified gentleman’s neatly tied cravat contrasts with his disheveled hairstyle, both of which were common to early-nineteenth-century fashions. In this framed miniature the sitter’s upward glance, possibly to heaven, suggests it was commissioned to mourn the recent loss of a loved one.
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Retrato de caballero
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Painting
Date: ca. 1805-1809
Artist: José Campeche y Jordán, born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809
Sitter: unidentified
Medium: oil on wood
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (22.3 x 15.9 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
Topics: Men
Portraits
Luce Center Label: Jos&eacute; Campeche's paintings usually have a highly finished, almost glassy surface, but this portrait retains the visible brushstrokes used to model the sitters features. Despite his African ancestry, Campeche did not often paint African subjects. Most of his sitters, including this horseman, were fair-skinned Europeans. (Andrew Connors, Jos&eacute; Campeche's San Juan Nepomuceno, American Art, Summer 1997)
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San Benito Abad
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object type: Sculpture
Date: ca. 1770-1818
Artist: Felipe de la Espada, born San Germán, Puerto Rico ca. 1754-died San Germán, Puerto Rico 1818
Medium: carved and painted cedar with glass
Dimensions: 34 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (87.0 x 41.3 x 34.9 cm.)
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
Topics: St. Benedict
Religion
Saints
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