Images of Families
Isaac Royall and His Family, painted by Robert Feke, 1741.
A large and imposing group portrait of one of colonial Massachusetts' youngest and wealthiest men and his family.
The Reverend Ebenezer Devotion and Martha Devotion, painted by Winthrop Chandler, 1770.
Double portraits by a country artisan-artist of a rural Massachusetts minister and his wife.
The Washington Family, painted by Edward Savage, 1804.
Portrait of the Revolutionary general and his family.
Joseph Moore and His Family, painted by Erastus Salisbury Field, 1839.
Portrait of a rural Massachusetts dentist/hatter/preacher and his family in their parlor.
Mother and Son, Anonymous Daguerreotypist, n.d.
A new technology--the daguerreotype--for early photographic family portraits.
The Four Seasons of Life--Middle Age: The Season of Strength, Currier & Ives, 1868.
Famous lithograph of mid-nineteenth-century Romantic family life in a suburban village.