Lieutenant John Trumbull Ray

John Trumbull Ray was the illegitimate son of Captain John Trumbull, one of colonial America’s leading portrait painters. Following the death of his first love, Trumbull had an affair with one of his brother’s servants, a woman named Temperance Ray; in 1792 she bore a son who strongly resembled Trumbull. Trumbull provided money for the boy’s upbringing, passing him off as his “nephew.” Against his father’s wishes, Ray enlisted in the British army in 1812, and served in the Peninsular War under Wellington. In 1814 he was made lieutenant, and arranged to have this miniature painted by Andrew Robertson. The artist Thomas Seir Cummings made a copy of Robertson’s painting, which is also in this collection. [see 1942.11.9]

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Sotto lo stesso tetto: Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Unknown Man

Portrait miniature of Dr Donald Mackinnon

Portrait miniature of an unknown woman

Portrait Miniature of Miss Burnaby Green

Rev. John F. Colls, B.D

Unknown woman

Bernardino Rivadavia

Portrait of an unknown woman

Muskrat, before 1997

Cane with Boot-Shaped Handle, late 19th-early 20th century

San Jose, late 19th-early 20th century

Nuestra Senora del Carmen, ca. late 19th-early 20th century

San Rafael, late 19th-early 20th century

Worrying Mother Pig Toy, 20th century (pre-1960s)

Bright Light at Russell's Corners, 1946

Fish Decoy, ca. 1940s

Duc et Duchess de Brabant, 1926

Shipping Coffee, Champerico, Guatemala, 1875, published 1877

(Study for "Labor"), ca. 1870

Head of the Artist, n.d.

A Passage from the Papers, 1887

Max Weyl, ca. 1875

Co-ee-há-jo, a Chief, 1838

Marie Antoinette, n.d.