18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture
American paintings, from colonial portraits to Civil War-era landscapes, occupy the Gibbes Main Gallery. Portraits of leading political, social, and military figures include works by Jeremiah Theus, Henry Benbridge, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully and Samuel F.B. Morse. The gallery also features landscape and genre scenes by Angelica Kaufmann, Louis Mignot, Eastman Johnson, Conrad Wise Chapman, and William Aiken Walker. The paintings collection is complemented by examples of neoclassical sculpture on view in the Campbell Rotunda, and decorative art objects on loan from the Rivers Collection.
Cymon and Iphigenia, ca. 1780, by Angelica Kauffman (Swiss, 1741-1807); oil on canvas; 32 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches; Gift of Alicia Hopton Middleton; 1937.005.0015
Kettle Stand, ca. 1750-60, Charleston, South Carolina; mahogany; 27 5/8 x 21 inches (diameter); Courtesy of The Rivers Collection
Mrs. Robert Gilmor, Jr. (Sarah Reeve Ladson, ca. 1790-1866), 1823, by Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872); oil on canvas; 46 1/2 x 39 inches; Bequest of Mrs. Leila Ladson Jones; 1942.010.0003
Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863, 1886, by William Aiken Walker (American, 1838-1921), oil on canvas; 28 x 43 3/4 inches; Museum purchase; 2001.032.0001
Faith, ca. 1866, by Hiram Powers (American, 1803-1873); marble 27 3/4 x 19 x 13 inches; Museum purchase with funds from the McGuire Family Foundation; 2014.009.0001
Thomas Middleton of The Oaks (1753-1797), 1770, by Benjamin West (American, 1738-1820); oil on canvas; 59 x 50 inches; Gift of Alicia Hopton Middleton; 1937.005.0014