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Jane Stone
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843
These portraits were painted in 1805, after Benjamin Trott had set out on horseback for a yearlong journey westward. They are two of the many works created as the artist made his way through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio, states that then defined the nation’s western borders.
- Date
- ca. 1805
- Type
- Painting-Miniature
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Department
- SAAM
- Institution
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- saam_1934.11.1
- Credit
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
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