Jane Gray Wall

Joseph Francis Burrell, Jane Gray Wall, ca. 1795, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen, 1999.87.3
Copied Joseph Francis Burrell, Jane Gray Wall, ca. 1795, watercolor on ivory, 3 182 12 in. (7.96.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen, 1999.87.3
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Artwork Details

Title
Jane Gray Wall
Date
ca. 1795
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
3 182 12 in. (7.96.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor on ivory
Classifications
Keywords
  • Portrait female — Wall, Jane Gray — bust
Object Number
1999.87.3

Artwork Description

In June 1793, Jane Gray Wall married Thomas Shore, a landowner in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. In 1817 their daughter, Mary Louise Shore, married Doctor William Shippen, whose miniature, painted when he was a toddler, is in this collection [see 1999.87.5]. According to an inscription on the back of Jane Wall’s miniature, it was painted in Soho Square in London. This suggests that she was visiting Europe, as many other Americans did to further their education during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.