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Portrait of Thomas Noyes

Object number

RIF6093

Maker

Artist Denison Limner, American, active late 18th century
Artist, probably by Joseph Steward, 1753–1822

Dimensions

33 1/2 × 26 3/8 in. (85.09 × 66.99 cm)

Date

probably 1799

Current location

Westerly Public Library and Wilcox Park

Geography


(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Provenance

Thomas Noyes (1755–1844), Pawcatuck, Connecticut; by descent to his granddaughter, Mrs. Orson C. Rogers (née Mary Noyes, 1846–1938), Westerly, Rhode Island; bequeathed to Westerly Public Library, Rhode Island, 1938

Associated names

Thomas Noyes
Mary Noyes Rogers

See also

Bibliography

Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 416, no. 97, fig. 1.