Jane Gray Wall

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.