Spectacles, ca. 18th century. These spectacles once belonged to Abraham Redwood, founder of the Redwood Library. Circular lens holders are filled with clear glass lenses within tortoise-shell frames and earpieces are adjustable in length by folding. The artist is unknown...

Silver Teapot, c.1745-1750. Samuel Casey (c.1723-c.1773). South Kingstown & Newport, RI.   This teapot has particulary fine engraving at the shoulder. The earliest monogram on this teapot is that of Sarah Pope (1742-1819), who was married to William Redwood (son of our founder Abraham Redwood) in 1757....

Transition, c. 1870. William Greene Turner (1833-1917). Marble. Gift of William Greene Turner. Artist's interpretation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's line, "there is no Death! What seems so is transition...

Captain Charles Hunter, c. 1875. Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819-1904). Marble. Gift of Henry D. Phelps. Charles Hunter (1774-1849), son of Senator William Hunter (President of Redwood 1846-49) and Mary Robinson, was born in Newport 19 June 1813. He entered the Navy in 1831, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1841...

The American School Boy, c. 1857. Joseph Mozier (1812-1870). Marble. Gift of Edward King. Joseph Mozier was born in Vermont and opened a studio in Rome in 1845 where he remained until his death. Most of Mozier's themes had a strong literary, historical, or anecdotal appeal....

Pheidippides, Soldier of Marathon, c. 1917. Bronze. Gift of Mrs. George S. Scott. This bronze statue is a mechanical copy of the original marble in the Louvre by Jean Pierre Cortot (1787-1843), French School, and is known as The soldier of Marathon Announcing the Victory. Pheidippides is a character...

Gilbert Stuart, c. 1825. John Henri Isaac Browere (1792-1834). Marble. Gift of Reverend Dr. Roderick Terry.   Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) lived and studied art in Newport. Considered outstanding in his field, he spent his adult career in Newport, Scotland, London, Phildelphia, Boston, and Washington D.C., where he...

Henry Collins, c. 1736. John Smibert (1688-1751). Oil on Canvas. The Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Széchényi Memorial Collection. Henry Collins (1699-1764) was a Newport merchant, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. He was nicknamed, "Newport's Lorenzo de Medici" for his generous and enthusiastic patronage of the emerging cultural...

Mary Winthrop Wanton, c. 1740. Robert Feke (1707-1752). Oil on Canvas. Gift of Angelica Gilbert Gardiner.   Mary Winthrop Wanton was the wife of Joseph Wanton, Rhode Island's last colonial governor. The fashionable decolletage of her gown is cut so low that the scandalized Redwood directors a century...

Gilbert Stuart Self-Portrait at 24, c. 1778. Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828). Oil on Canvas. Bequest of Louisa Lee Waterhouse. Gilbert Stuart was America's great early portrait painter. He was born over a snuff mill in North Kingston, Rhode Island, and arrived to Newport virtually a penniless begger. He...