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Mary Stead
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (February 25, 1746 – August 16, 1825) was an American statesman, military officer and Founding Father who served as United States Minister to France from 1796 to 1797. A delegate to the Constitutional Convention where he signed the Constitution of the United States, Pinckney was twice nominated by the Federalist Party as its presidential candidate in 1804 and 1808, losing both elections. Born into a planter class family from South Carolina, Pinckney practiced law for several years and was elected to the colonial legislature. A supporter of independence from Great Britain, Pinckney served in the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of brigadier general. After the war, he won election to the South Carolina legislature, where he and his brother Thomas represented the landed slavocracy of the South Carolina Lowcountry. An advocate of a stronger federal government, Pinckney served as a delegate to the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, which wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Earl
James Earl (May 1, 1761 – August 18, 1796) was an American painter and younger brother of fellow portrait painter Ralph Earl. He was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and died of yellow fever in Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. He lived and worked in London for ten years, where he married and had three children and enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy in 1789. His British clientele were mostly Loyalist (American Revolution), Loyalists living in exile, though there is no evidence that he was a committed Loyalist himself. Among his best known works are ''Rebecca Pritchard Mills and Her Daughter Eliza Shrewsbury'' (ca. 1795) and a portrait of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. References 1761 births 1796 deaths 18th-century American painters 18th-century American male artists American male painters American portrait painters People from Leicester, Massachusetts Deaths from yellow fever {{US-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
