Jane Gray Wall
ca. 1795
Medium
Painting-Miniature
Classification
Painting-Miniature
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Natalie Brooks Sears Shippen and William Brush Shippen
Accession Number
1999.87.3
Tags
About this artwork
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 Wallâs 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...