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BUILDING AND PAINTING
COLONIAL LIFE
what was life like at the end of the 17th century?
Despite Hobb's theory of natural dominion,
women were not initially thought of as the
primary caretaker of children. Why did this
change?
Rev Henry Whitfield House, 1639
Guilford CT
Old Ship Meeting House, 1681 (1731,1755)
Hingham (Mass.)
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Fairbanks House, ca. 1636, Dedham, MA
purlin
John Ward House, 1684, Salem, MA
[note the jut or overhang]
rafter
Who is Eliza Pinckney?
What was her life like?
Why did George Washington admire her?
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How did women assist the revolutionary war?
Which of these two fits the new image?
How were women's lives changing and how were these
changes reflected in their image?
Miss Carolina
Sullivan, an
obstinate
daughter of
America
1776
HAIR STYLES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC
etching made by
Matthew Darly
Colonial and Early Post-Colonial Portraits
Mr. and Mrs. John Freake
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Mr. John Freake
Mrs. Freake and
Baby Mary
1680
1674
canvas
oil on canvas
42 1/2 x 36 3/4 in
42 1/2 x 36 3/4
How would a limner advertise himself?
"Lawrence Kilburn, Limner, just arrived
from London ... hereby acquaints all
Gentlemen and Ladies inclined to favour
him in having their pictures drawn, that he
don't doubt of pleasing them in taking a true
Likeness, and finishing the Drapery in a
proper Manner, as also in the Choice of
Attitudes, suitable to each Person's Age and
Sex, and giving agreeable Satisfaction, as
he has heretofore done to Gentlemen and
Ladies in London."
Young Lady with a
Rose
Pieter Vanderlyn
1732
Oil on canvas
32 1/2 x 27 in. (82.6 x
68.6 cm)
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Mr. and Mrs. Francis Brinley
John Smibert:
Francis Brinley
1729
Oil on canvas
50 x 39 1/4 in. (127 x
99.7 cm)
Mrs. Francis Brinley
and Her Son Francis
John Singleton
Copley:
1729
Nicholas Boylston
Oil on canvas
1767
50 x 39 1/4 in. (127 x
99.7 cm)
oil/canvas
124.5x101.6cm.
Mrs. Thomas Gage
(Margaret Kemble
Gage)
1771
oil on canvas, 50"
x 40"
Charles Willson Peale:
Portrait of John and
Elizabeth Lloyd
Cadwalader and Their
Daughter Anne
1772
Oil on canvas
51 1/2 x 41 1/4 inches
(130.8 x 104.8 cm)
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Copley:
the paradox of family portraits:
Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Mifflin
to be matricentric or patricentric?
1775, oil on canvas,
61-1/2 x 48 in
a companionate
marriage?
Robert Feke: Isaac Royall and family
1741, 54-5/8 x 77-11/16 inches.
Benjamin West: Artist's Family
1770, 52 x 67 cm, oil/canvas
Copley Family, 1776-77, oil on canvas
72 1/2 x 90 3/8 in
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Edward Savage: The Washington Family, painting and
engraving, 1790s
2nd version, 1788
Charles Willson Peale: The Peale Family (Peale Family
Group), 1771-73, 1809, oil on canvas, 143.5 x 227.3 cm
Sarah Miriam Peale:
Mrs. Rubens Peale
and Son
1823
oil on canvas
30 x 24 in
Anna Claypoole Peale:
Miss Susannah Williams
1825
the family portrait becomes a genre painting
watercolor on ivory
(approx. 3" x 3")
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C W Peale: Exhuming the First American Mastodon
1806, oil/Canvas, 50 x 62 1/2 in.
Lilly Martin Spencer:
Domestic Happiness
1849
Oil on canvas
140.9 cm x 114.9 cm
Mother and Child
1858
oil on academy
board
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