page_title: Theodosia Burr Alston
section_title: Portraits
hierarchical_section_title: Theodosia Burr Alston / Portraits
context_page_description: Theodosia Burr Alston was an American socialite, and the daughter of the third U.S. Vice President, Aaron Burr, and Theodosia Bartow Prevost. Her husband, Joseph Alston, was governor of South Carolina during the War of 1812. She was lost at sea at age 29.
context_section_description: Gilbert Stuart painted a portrait of the 11-year-old Theodosia Burr in 1794. It is now at Yale University Art Gallery.
  Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin painted a profile portrait of the 13-year-old Theodosia Burr in 1796. He made an engraving of it, a copy of which is at the National Portrait Gallery.
  A portrait miniature of a young woman, attributed to John Wesley Jarvis, is identified as Theodosia Burr Alston. Two copies of the miniature were made and are attributed to Charles Fraser. One was handed down in the Alston family, and it illustrated the cover of Richard N. Côté's 2002 biography Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy.
  Pendant portraits of Vice President Burr and his daughter were painted by John Vanderlyn in 1802. They are at the New York Historical Society.
  A miniature of Theodosia Burr Alston (c. 1811) by an unknown artist, based on the Vanderlyn portrait, is at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
  The Nag's Head Portrait, a Federal Era portrait of an unidentified woman by an unidentified artist, was acquired in 1869 in Nag's Head, North Carolina. As discussed above, the owner believed it to be a previously unknown portrait of Theodosia Burr Alston. In the 20th century, the Nag's Head Portrait was owned by Ann Burr Auchincloss, and since 1980 it has been at Yale University's Lewis Walpole Library.
caption: Portrait of Theodosia Burr, artist unknown, copy after Vanderlyn
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