A Few 18th-Century American Women with Sheep & Lambs

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Well, as long as we are focusing on women and animals, we might as well look at a few of my other favorite outdoor subjects, sheep & lambs. The wooly creatures began appearing in Western religious paintings early. By the 17th century, lambs were showing up in non-religious portraits as well. These are a few of my favorites, including several early American paintings.

Anthonie Palamedesz. (Stevaerts, Stevens) (1601-1673) Child and Sheep, 1655

Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) Lady Belasyse

Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) Girl with a Lamb

Elisabeth Sophie Cheron (1648-1711) Self Portrait

Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1743) Portrait of a Woman as St Agnes (Perhaps Catherine Voss)

James Francis Maubert (1666-1746) Portrait of Henrietta Duchess of Bolton

Colonial American 1730-1735 Gerardus Duyckinck (1695-1749) De Peyster Girl with Lamb

Colonial Americaqn Gerardus Duyckinck (1695-1749) Portrait Of Franks Children with Lamb 1735

Colonial American 1754 Joseph Blackburn (1700-1780) Mary Sylvester

Sir George Chalmers (1720-1791) Elizabeth and Mary Chichester

Colonial American? 1770 Cosmo Alexander (1724-1772) Girl with a Lamb
Colonial American John Durand (1731-1805) Mary Beekman
Josepf Wright Of Derby (1734-1797) Miss Frances Warren

Josepf Wright Of Derby (1734-1797) Miss Frances Warren

Colonial American 1756 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Ann Tyning (Mrs Thomas Smelt)

William Henesy (English 18th Century) Baptist Noel 4th Earl of Gainsborough and His Wife Elizabeth with their Children
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