Henry Augustus Coit

John Wood Dodge, Henry Augustus Coit, 1838, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 1948.11.2
Copied John Wood Dodge, Henry Augustus Coit, 1838, watercolor on ivory, sight 2 3⁄4 x 2 1⁄4 in. (7.0 x 5.7 cm) oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 1948.11.2
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Artwork Details

Title
Henry Augustus Coit
Artist
Date
1838
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sight 2 3⁄4 x 2 1⁄4 in. (7.0 x 5.7 cm) oval
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor on ivory
Classifications
Subjects
  • Portrait male — Coit, Henry A. — bust
Object Number
1948.11.2
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1948.11.2

Artwork Description

Henry Augustus Coit (born 1800) lived in Cuba as a young man, and for over twenty years, invested in the sugar trade along with his partner, Moses Taylor III. Coit was fluent in Spanish and moved easily in Cuban society. Having made a fortune in the sugar trade, he maintained palatial homes in Havana, Dobbs Ferry, and Saratoga Springs, New York, until he was ruined in the panic of 1857. This miniature was painted the year he married a Boston heiress.