{"id":1023,"date":"2025-06-30T20:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?page_id=1023"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:17:38","slug":"portrait-miniatures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?page_id=1023","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Miniatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early days of the Grand Project, I came across some portrait miniatures<\/a> of some descendants of Moses Tryon<\/a> through his eldest daughter Elizabeth.\u00a0 It occurred to me that as I searched for portraits of some of my officers, I might also look into the possibility of portrait miniatures.\u00a0 Alas, in almost all cases, while the signature of the painter might be seen on surviving pieces, almost never is the subject featured in the piece actually named thereon, and the person is known by family oral tradition.\u00a0 Still, I found the pieces of interest, and I began collecting them.\u00a0 Faces of those long gone but relevant to the late 18th and turn of the 19th centuries.\u00a0 I periodically will pick up one here and there and give them a good home.\u00a0 The following is, therefore, something of a museum, with each piece accompanied by what little information I had been able to glean.\u00a0 These often come from private estate sales, and while I can cite the state or region the piece came from, the seller has no further information to impart; how very sad.\u00a0 Aside from the information I obtain from the seller, I also utilize these two volumes as my immediate sources of information…<\/p>\n\n\t\t