← Back to discovery![The City of New York, in the State of New York, North America [The Birch View with the Picnic Party]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP-19735-001.jpg)
Scroll or pinch to deep-zoom · powered by IIIF
SIPublic domain
Rev. William White, D.D.
William Birch, born Warwickshire, England 1755-died Philadelphia, PA 1834
William White (1748-1836) was the first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. He was influential in the development of this new religion and created a constitution for the church similar in its ideas to the Constitution of the United States. White served as bishop from 1787 until his death in 1836.
- Date
- ca. 1830
- Type
- Painting-Miniature
- Medium
- enameled copper
- Department
- SAAM
- Institution
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- saam_1951.3.2
- Credit
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
More like this
The City of New York, in the State of New York, North America [The Birch View with the Picnic Party]
METSamuel Seymour · [1803] reissued ca. 1820
The Falls of Niagara
SIWilliam Birch, born Warwickshire, England 1755-died Philadelphia, PA 1834 · ca. 1827
Bishop William White
METWilliam Russell Birch · ca. 1830
