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The Rhode Island Historical Society

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Portraits from the RIHS Painting Collection

Reverend Joseph Belcher, 1710-1720
Anstis Jenkins Updike painted by Nehemiah Partridge ca. 1722, oil on canvas
Mr. Robert Robinson, ca. 1725
Sarah Robinson painted by unknown artist ca. 1725, oil on canvas
Samuel Browne, Jr., 1734
Katherine Winthrop Brown painted by John Smibert in 1734, oil on canvas
Samuel Chace, 1735-1740
Reverend John Callender, 1745
Robert Jenkins, 1748
Betsey Jenkins painted by John Greenwood in 1748, oil on canvas
Mrs. Robert Feke (Eleanor Cozzens Feke), 1750-1751
Thomas Cranston, 1754-1755
Reverend Enos Hitchcock, 1775-1780
Doctor Amos Throop, 1775-1800
Deborah Sampson (Gannett), 1797
Julia Treadwell Pinckney drawn by William Doyle between 1815-1820, pastel on paper
Abby Brown Mason painted by Waldo in 1823, oil on canvas
Russell Warren, ca. 1824
Wheeler Martin, 1825
Catherine R. Williams painted by Susannah Paine between 1825-1850, oil on canvas
Lucretia Dutton Parker Vinton painted by unknown artist between 1825-1830, oil on canvas
Major John Rogers Vinton, 1825-1835
Portrait of a Young Man, 1825-1835
Portrait of a Young Man, 1825-1835
Portrait of Military Officer, 1825-1835
General David Hammond Vinton, 1825-1835
Reverend James McSparran, 1835-1885
Candace Crawford Carrington, ca. 1840
Thomas Wilson Door, 1840-1850
Elisha R. Potter, 1844
The Banishment of Roger Williams, ca. 1850
Thomas Howland, 1850-1857
Reverend Gideon Babcock Perry, 1859
John Russell Bartlett, 1859
Francis Wayland, ca.1860
Governor Sprague’s White Horse, 1869
Sullivan Dorr, Jr., ca. 1875
Samuel Greene Arnold, 1881
Ellen D. Lincoln painted by James Sullivan Lincoln in 1883, oil on canvas
Abby Parmenter Gladding painted by Sydney R. Burliegh ca. 1884, oil on canvas
Moses Brown, ca. 1898
Jane Carpenter, 19th Century
Gilbert Stuart, 19th Century
Reverend Jonathan Leavitt, n.d.

    

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