Miniatures and Silhouettes from the collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
Celia Ray Greene painted by unknown artist in 1785, paint in ivorySarah Harris Hopkins, drawn by unknown artist between 1785-1790, graphite on paperJohn Wood and Rebeca Wickham Crooke Wedding Locket painted by Joseph Dunkerly ca. 1790, paint on ivoryUnidentified Child, ca. 1790Captain David Hicks, 1790-1800Joseph Rogers, 1790-1800Judge Robert Hellen, 1792Colonel Edward Dexter, 1795-1800John C. King, 1795Mourning Miniature, 1795James Burrill, Jr., 1795John Francis, 1795Sarah Brown Herreshoff, 1795Bernon Dunn, ca. 1800Mary Brown Stelle painted by Abby Brown Mason ca. 1800, paint in ivoryCharles Williams, ca. 1800George Washington, ca. 1800John Holden Ormsbee, ca. 1800Samuel Ward Greene, ca. 1800Martha Rogers painted by unknown artist ca. 1800, paint on ivoryCarl F. Herreshoff, 1800-1801Hannah Weaver Peckham painted by Lewis Peckham before 1812, paint on ivoryThomas Peckham, 1800-1805Unidentified Man and Woman, 1800-1810Unidentified Man, 1800-1820Desire Burrows Aborn Crapo painted by Thomas Young ca. 1801, paint on ivoryPhilip Crapo, ca. 1801Joseph Sweet, 1805John Gladding, 1809-1810Phoebe Smith Rhodes painted by T. Nixon in 1809, watercolor on paperElizabeth Allen Rhodes painted by T. Nixon in 1809, watercolor on paperChristopher Smith Rhodes, 1809Gabriel Allen, ca. 1810Nancy Allen, ca.1810Nancy West Allen, ca. 1810Albert Collins Greene, ca. 1810Josiah Whitaker, ca. 1810Catherine or Harriet DeWolf painted by unknown artist ca. 1810, paint on ivoryCatherine or Harriet DeWolf painted by unknown artist ca. 1810, paint on ivoryElizabeth Angel painted by unknown artist between 1810-1815, paint on ivoryCaptain John Gladding, 1810-1820Osmond Warren, 1810-1830Benjamin R. Howland, 1815-1820Abby Brown Mason self portrait in 1820, paint on ivoryWarren Obadiah Child, 1820-1830Patience Arnold Wheeler painted by unknown artist ca. 1820, paint on ivoryUnidentified Woman, ca. 1820Rosa Anne Mason painted by Abby Brown Mason in 1820, paint on ivoryUnidentified Man, 1820-1825Hiram Scott, 1820-1840Sallie Crowell Bliss, 1820-1840Selinda Scott, 1820-1830Benjamin G. Pabodie, 1820-1840Unidentified Man, 1820Unidentified Woman painted by William Lewis in 1821, paint on paperUnidentified Woman painted by William Lewis in 1821, paint on paperUnidentified Woman painted by William Lewis in 1821, paint on paperAlice Brown Mason painted by Abby Brown Mason in 1821, paint on ivoryCharles Frederick Herreshoff, 1821Catherine Louise Kilton painted by Williams in 1824, paint on ivoryWilliam Carter, ca. 1824Stephen Gano, ca. 1824Milton Barrows, 1825-1830James DeWolf, 1825-1830Nancy Anne Bradford DeWolf painted by unknown artist between 1825-1830, paint on ivoryUnidentified Woman painted by unknown artist between 1825-1830, paint on ivoryClarissa Barrows Guild, 1825-1830Ann Elizabeth Maxon, 1827Phoebe Maxon Rider, 1827Mrs. William J. Pabodie, ca. 1830Landscape, 1830-1840Unidentified Man, 1830-1840Unidentified Woman, 1830-1840Martha Rogers painted by unknown artist between 1830-1840, paint on ivoryWilliam J. Pabodie, 1833Timothy Ruggles Green’s Eye, 1834Timothy Ruggles Green, 1835Mrs. James Smith, ca. 1835James Smith, ca. 1835Cordelia James painted by unknown artist ca. 1835, paint on ivoryMr. Sears, ca. 1840Thomas Fosdick Smith, ca. 1840Emma Smith Jackson Dunn painted by unknown artist ca. 1840, paint on ivoryDaniel M. Bogman, ca. 1840[Mrs. Sears] painted by Moses B. Russell ca. 1840, paint on ivoryThomas A. Doyle, 1855-1860James N. Granger, 1860-1880Eliza Taylor Fiske Paine painted by unknown artist in 1867, paint on ivoryAllston E. Thrope, ca. 1895Allston E. Thorpe, 1930George Wilhelm, 1912Effingham Lawrence Capron, 19th CenturySamuel or John Leonard, 19th CenturyUnidentified Man, 19th CenturyCaptain John Gladding, 19th CenturyGeneral Christopher Rhodes, 19th CenturyJames Harvey Armington, 19th CenturyAsa Watson Armington, 19th CenturyJohn and Abigail Capron, 19th CenturyPhoebe Congdon, 19th CenturyTruman Beckwith, 19th CenturyAbigail Aldrich Scott, 19th CenturyAbigail Aldrich Scott, 19th CenturyUnidentified Man, possibly 19th CenturyWilliam Hanson, possibly 19th CenturyWilliam Ray Greene, 19th Century
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