Early American Portraits and Silver: Golden Jubilee of the Colonial Dames of America

About the exhibition

J. B. Speed Memorial Museum presented Early American Portraits and Silver: Golden Jubilee of the Colonial Dames of America in Louisville, Kentucky in 1947. The documented selection includes paintings, with particular surviving works identified in the museum histories. Documented examples include John Wollaston’s Mary Walton Morris (1749/1752; oil on canvas) and Thomas Sully’s Charles Carnan Ridgely (1820; oil on canvas). The reconstructed checklist is partial, and exact opening and closing days remain unverified.

Also recorded as: Early American Portraits and Silver [Golden Jubilee of the Colonial Dames of America], J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky