Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart
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Object Details
- Artist
- Charles Cromwell Ingham, 1796 - 1863
- Sitter
- Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart, 1798 - 1830
- Exhibition Label
- In 1823, Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart and her husband, Charles, traveled to Hawai‘i with the second company of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The arrival of these early U.S. missionaries coincided with a gradual social transition in Hawaiian society, which included shifts in religion and land regulation. With the support of King Kamehameha II, the missionaries orchestrated the conversion of Ka¯naka Maoli, or Native Hawaiians, to Christianity.
- By the 1830s, the missionaries’ influence on the ali‘i, or Hawaiian nobility, was such that businessmen could not lease land without the support of those associated with the ABCFM. The power of the missionaries and their descendants continued to build throughout the nineteenth century, eventually leading to the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893.
- Although the background of this portrait evokes Hawai‘i, it depicts the hills of Lake Otsego near Stewart’s hometown of Cooperstown, New York.
- En 1823, Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart y su esposo Charles viajaron a Hawái con el segundo grupo de la Junta Estadounidense de Comisionados para Misiones Extranjeras (ABCFM). La llegada de estos primeros misioneros de EE.UU. coincidió con una transición social gradual del pueblo hawaiano, que implicó cambios en la religión y la regulación de las tierras. Con apoyo del rey Kamehameha II, los misioneros orquestaron la conversión al cristianismo de los ka¯naka maoli (hawaianos nativos).
- Para la década de 1830, era tal la influencia de los misioneros sobre los ali‘i, o nobleza hawaiana, que los comerciantes no podían rentar tierras sin apoyo de alguien asociado con la ABCFM. El poder de los misioneros y sus descendientes siguió aumentando en el siglo XIX y a la larga condujo al derrocamiento de la monarquía hawaiana en 1893.
- Aunque el fondo de este retrato evoca a Hawái, se trata de las colinas del lago Otsego, cerca de Cooperstown, Nueva York, lugar de residencia de Stewart.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; given in honor of Stewart W. Bowers
- c. 1822-23
- Object number
- S/NPG.2017.74
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 92.1 × 71.1 × 2.9 cm (36 1/4 × 28 × 1 1/8")
- Frame: 112.2 × 92.1 × 10.2 cm (44 3/16 × 36 1/4 × 4")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Home Furnishings\Furniture
- Interior\Interior with Exterior View
- Home Furnishings\Curtain
- Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart: Female
- Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart: Religion and Spirituality\Missionary
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_S_NPG.2017.74
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4fdf0c5f8-9e83-494c-a37e-005a4f645b35
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