Contact Us
Please contact us if you have updated information about portraits included in this database or if you have information about a portrait that you believe should be added to this database.
David Lyde (1713-1729)
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 1715-1720
David Lyde was the son of Elizabeth Gwynne Lyde and her first husband, Stephen Lyde. He was the stepson of John Tayloe I. The portrait descended in the Tayloe family.
Dimensions: 30 x 25 (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
The portrait represents a young boy wearing a gray jacket trimmed in silver with jeweled clasps. An orange-red drape is wrapped around him. His right hand is on his hip and he holds a cardinal in his left hand.
See: MESDA Database, S-4304; Carolyn J. Weekley, Painters and Paintings in the Early American South (2013), 90-91.
Location: Mount Airy Plantation
Credits: Private collection, MESDA Object Database, record S-4304, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), Winston-Salem, NC.