Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart
Charles Cromwell Ingham, 1796 - 1863
c. 1822-23
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; given in honor of Stewart W. Bowers
Accession Number
S/NPG.2017.74
Tags
Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart: FemaleMissionaryCurtainFurnitureInterior with Exterior ViewPortrait
About this artwork
In 1823, Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart and her husband, Charles, traveled to Hawaiâi with the second company of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The arrival of these early U.S. missionaries coincided with a gradual social transition in Hawaiian society, which included shifts in religion and land regulation. With the support of King Kamehameha II, the missionaries orchestrated the conversion of Ka¯naka Maoli, or Native Hawaiians, to Christianity.