Women in the 19C United States of America: Early 19C American Families

Friday, May 15, 2020

Early 19C American Families

1804 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (American artist, (c 1785-8–1838) Family Portrait.

1807 The Smith Family 1807 Rachel King Smith (1774-1823) and James Smith (1762-1818), Dumfries, Virginia

Joshua Johnson (American artist, 1763–1824) Family Group

Eunice Griswold Pinney (American artist, 1770-1849) A Memorial To Herself

Joshua Johnson (American artist, 1763–1824) The McCormack Family 1805

John Trumbull (American artist, 1756 – 1843) The Vernet Family 1806

Eunice Griswold Pinney (American artist, 1770-1849) Lolotte and Werther 1810

Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) 1810 The Morse Family

Deborah Goldsmith (American artist, 1808-1836) Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Day and Daughter Cornelia, Sangerfield, NY c 1823-1824

Joshua Johnson (American artist, 1763–1824) Grace Allison McCurdy (Mrs Hugh McCurdy & Her Daughters

Eunice Griswold Pinney (American artist, 1770-1849) Family Group at Piano c 1820

John Lewis Krimmel (1786-1821) The Country Wedding 1820

John S. Blunt (American artist, 1798–1835) A Cottage Family 1823

Ambrose Andrews (American artist, 1805–1859) The Schuyler Family 1824

Charles Bird King (American artist, 1785–1862) Itinerant Painter 1825

Deborah Goldsmith (American artist, 1808-1836) The Talcott Family 1832

Noah North (American painter, 1809-1880) Family Portrait 1830s

Bass Otis (American artist, 1784–1861) Self Portrait of the Artist and His Family

Frederick R Spencer (American artist, 1806-1875) Family Group 1840

Attributed to French-Born American artist Tomassin Creole Family Mourning Portrait, New Orleans c 1840

Horace Rockwell (American painter, 1811-1877) Lewis G. Thompson Family 1842-5

George Hollingsworth (American artist, 1813-1882) The Hollingsworth Family, 1850

Sturtevant J Hamblin (American artist, 1817-1884) Family

Thomas Sully (American artist, 1783-1872) The Alexander Family 1851

Sheldon Peck (American painter, 1797-1868) The John G. Wagner Family
Unknown Artist Family Group
Henry F. Darby (American artist, 1829–1897) The Reverend John Atwood and His Family 1845
Oliver Tarbell Eddy (American artist, 1799–1868) The Children off Mr and Mrs Israel Griffith
Ambrose Andrews (American artist, 1805–1859) The Children of Nathan Starr
Stanley Mix (American artist, 1814–1872) The Williamson Family
Erastus Salisbury Field (American artist, 1805–1900) Joseph Moore and His Family 1840

Charles Christian Nahl (German-born American Painter, 1818-1878) Visit to Grandpa 1850

William J. Hough and family by Brayton J. Wilcox 1852-53

Charles Christian Nahl (German-born American Painter, 1818-1878) Crossing the Plains 1856

William Smith Jewett (American artist, 1812–1873) The Promised Land The Grayson Family

James Goodwyn Clonney (American genre artist, 1812–1867) A Visit from Grandfather

James Goodwyn Clonney (American genre artist, 1812–1867) A Good Breakfast

James Goodwyn Clonney (American genre artist, 1812–1867) The Storyteller

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (German-born American artist, 1816-1868) The Amber Necklace

James Goodwyn Clonney (American genre artist, 1812–1867) Offering Baby a Rose

About this blog

In colonial America, men were considered superior to woman in all ways. In a strict patriarchal hierarchy, men controlled not only wealth & political power but also how their children were raised, religious questions, & all matters of right & wrong.

In the early part of the 19Cy, however, many Americans experienced a revolution in gender. The doctrine of “separate spheres” maintained that woman’s sphere was the world of privacy, family, & morality while man’s sphere was the public world -– economic striving, political maneuvering, & social competition. But women were interested in equality.

In 1848, New York passed the Married Woman’s Property Act. Now a woman wasn’t automatically liable for her husband’s debts; she could enter contracts on her own; she could collect rents or receive an inheritance in her own right; she could file a lawsuit on her own behalf. She became for economic purposes, an individual. By 1900, every state has passed legislation modeled after this, granting married women some control over their property and earnings.

In 1870 after the Civi War, the 15th Amendment was ratified, saying, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” African-Americans could vote, but women could not.

But it was not until 1920, that the 19th Amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”