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Bracelet with Portrait of Joseph Foster Barham

Bracelet with Portrait of Joseph Foster Barham

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Bracelet with Portrait of Joseph Foster Barham
CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Bracelet with Portrait of Joseph Foster Barham
Datec. 1790–1795
MediumWatercolor on ivory, 18k yellow gold, and glass
DimensionsImage sight: 1 1/2 × 1 1/8 in. (3.8 × 2.9 cm)
Bracelet: 2 1/2 × 2 3/4 × 2 1/8 in. (6.4 × 7 × 5.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, bequest of Caroline A. Ross
Object number2005.1663
Not on view

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Department
Rienzi
DescriptionJoseph Foster Barham, whose portrait is featured on this bracelet, married Lady Caroline Tufton in 1792 and this miniature was likely made to commemorate the event. Foster Barham inherited considerable estates in the West Indies, England, and Wales.  His Jamaican plantations were the source of much of his wealth but, due to the slave labor, also moral anguish. A member of parliament, he later become a supporter of William Wilberforce’s attempts to secure the abolition of the slave trade.

Provenance[John Jaffa Antiques, London]; purchased by Caroline Ross, February, 1997; bequeathed to MFAH, 2005.

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