Captain Robert Lillibridge

William Verstille, born Boston, MA ca. 1755-died Boston, MA 1803 Robert Lillibridge

1700

Medium: watercolor on ivory
Genre: Painting-miniature
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, US

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Painting-Miniature

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Clothing and dressmenCostume and dressportraitsHistory

About

Robert Lillibridge, a sea captain born in 1767, died aboard his ship of typhoid fever in 1809. His crew buried him at sea off the coast of Africa. This portrait of Captain Lillibridge shows William Verstille’s tendency to portray his subjects with dramatic eyes set closely under the brows, with “bristly” hair and thin lips that appear slightly misplaced.

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