Sunday, September 3, 2023

18C American Women in Gardens

 

 1742-46 attributed to William Dering, Anne Byrd Carter.  These brick wall garden fences had balustrades of wood atop the wall

Detail 1755 Joseph Blackburn (fl 1753-1763). Isaac Winslow & His Family with a brick garden wall with finials at the gate in background. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

1760 William Williams (1727-1791). Deborah Richmond in front of a sophisticated curved wall. 

c 1763 John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). Mary Turner (Mrs. Daniel Sargent) in front of a Garden Wall.

1767 James Claypoole (1743-1814). Ann Galloway (Mrs Joseph Pemberton) sitting at a low wall.