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Mrs. Thomas Lee Shippen
Hugh Bridport (born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868)
ca. 1816
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (6.7 x 5.4 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Elizabeth Carter Farley was the granddaughter of Colonel William Byrd III of Virginia, and a cousin of the Civil War general Robert E. Lee. Her second husband was Thomas Lee Shippen (1765-1798) of Philadelphia, a confidante of Thomas Jefferson. Two of her children, Thomas Lee Shippen and William Shippen, were painted in miniature by James Peale, and are in this collection as well [see 1999.87.4, and 1999.87.5].
