Edward Jaquelin II (1716-1734)

Edward Jaquelin II was the son of Edward Jaquelin I and Martha Cary Jaquelin.

Dimensions: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

The subject is about wearing a red jacket and blue drape. He is outdoors and seated on a stone bench. He points at a green parrot in the tree. A brown and white dog lies next to him.

See: Carolyn J. Weekley, Painters and Paintings in the Early American South (2013), 91-94; Wayne Craven, Colonial American Portraiture (1986), 199-201.