attributed to John Alexander McDougall
Emilia Field Brewer
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Emilia Field Brewer” now? Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Unknown.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Emilia Field (1807-1861) married Reverend Josiah Brewer in 1829. The couple spent nine years as missionaries in Turkey, returning to the United States in 1838. She then founded the Elm Street Female Seminary in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised seven children, one of whom, David Josiah Brewer, became a Supreme Court justice. Her brothers were entrepreneur Cyrus Field, who laid the transatlantic cable, and Stephen J. Field, a member of the Supreme Court.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Details
- Accession number
- 1963.8.1
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0





