Colonial portraits can be dynamic historical evidence of people, places, and ideas. Yet most scholarship tends to overlook their social importance or focus on late-18th-century northern examples. Colonial Virginia Portraits is an interactive database that records information for more than 500 portraits created for Virginians between 1649 and 1776. Doing so, it illuminates an understudied region of artistic production and enables new research questions and methods. This presentation discusses why and how this digital project came together, what it can reveal about colonial Virginia’s art and history, and why these portraits matter.

DAR Museum lecture (delivered as an online webinar)
May 12, 2020
Speaker: Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum and creator of Colonial Virginia Portraits [ Ссылка ]

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