Photoarchives

Reference information and images for paintings in private collections were collected primarily from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) Object Database (available online at http://mesda.org/research/object-database/) and the Frick Art Reference Library and Photoarchive (FARL) (available at https://www.frick.org/research/library). The Winterthur Decorative Arts Photographic Collection (DAPC), the Catalog of American Portraiture, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Virginia Portrait Index, and the Clarke County Historical Association Records were also consulted. 

 

Works Cited

Byrd, Mary Willing. “The Will of Mrs. Mary Willing Byrd, of Westover, 1813, with a List of the Westover Portraits.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 6, no. 4 (April 1899): 345–58.

Byrd, William, William Byrd II, William Byrd III.  The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776. Edited by Marion Tinling. Charlottesville: Published for the Virginia Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1977.

Fitzhugh, William. William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World 1676-1701. The Fitzhugh Letters and Other Documents. Edited by Richard Beale Davis. Chapel Hill: Published for the Virginia Historical Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 1963.

Hood, Graham. Charles Bridges and William Dering: Two Virginia Painters, 1735-1750 (1978)

Meschutt, David. “John Wollaston’s Portraits of the Randolph Family Owned by the Virginia Historical Society.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 16, no. 4 (October 1984): 449–73.

Peale, Charles Willson. The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. Edited by Lillian B. Miller, Sidney Hard, and Toby A. Appel. 5 volumes. New Haven: Published for the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution by Yale University Press, 1983-2000.

Sellers, Charles Coleman and Charles Willson Peale. “Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 42, no. 1 (1952)

Weekley, Carolyn J. Painters and Paintings in the Early American South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, ed. A Memorial Volume of Historical Portraiture, 1585-1830. Richmond: The William Byrd Press, 1930.

 

Further Readings on Colonial Portraiture

Anishanslin, Zara. Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Calvert, Karin. “Children in American Family Portraiture, 1670 to 1810.” The William and Mary Quarterly 39, no. 1 (January 1982): 87–113.

Craven, Wayne. Colonial American Portraiture: The Economic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Philosophical, Scientific, and Aesthetic Foundations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Doud, Richard K. “The Fitzhugh Portraits by John Hesselius.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 75, no. 2 (April 1967): 159–73.

Katz, Wendy. “Portraits and the Production of the Civil Self in Seventeenth‐Century Boston.” Winterthur Portfolio 39, no. 2/3 (Summer/Autumn 2004): 101–28.

Lovell, Margaretta M. Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 

Meschutt, David. “William Byrd and His Portrait Collection.” MESDA Journal 14, no. 1 (May 1988): 18–47.

Miles, Ellen G., ed. The Portrait in Eighteenth-Century America. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993.

Prosser, Deborah I. “‘The Rising Prospect of the Lovely Face’: Conventions of Gender in Colonial American Portraiture.” In Painting and Portrait Making in the American Northeast, edited by Peter Benes, 181-200. Boston: Boston University for the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 1994.

Rather, Susan. The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Reinhardt, Leslie. “Serious Daughters: Dolls, Dress, and Female Virtue in the Eighteenth Century.” American Art 20, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 32-55.

Jennifer Van Horn, The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2017.