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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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