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Summary
anonymous: Native American Sachem
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| Artist |
Anonymous (America, turn of the 17/18th century) |
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| Title |
Native American Sachem  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1681 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 84.1 × 76.5 cm (33.1 × 30.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
48.246 |
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| Credit line | Gift of Mr. Robert Winthrop | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | For decades, this painting of a Native American sachem (chief or leader) was misidentified as a portrait of Niantic leader Ninigret II; recent scholarship indicates that the subject may be Robin Cassacinamon, an influential Pequot leader. Cassacinamon was known to have been a friend of the Winthrop family of Connecticut, through whom this painting descended. The tribe originally occupied the basin of the Pequot River (now Connecticut’s Thames River), but the artist generalizes the setting in an idyllic manner. The stylization of the landscape, along with classical pose of the sachem, suggests that the artist, although nominally trained, was familiar with European art.[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer |
1. Unknown source 2. Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art |
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Licensing
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| current | 02:12, 13 August 2018 | | 1,807 × 2,000 (760 KB) | Trzęsacz | same source, file now larger available; https://risdmuseum.org/art_design/objects/2470 |
| 16:53, 26 August 2017 |  | 925 × 1,024 (256 KB) | Trzęsacz | original from the museum web site; http://risdmuseum.org/manual/423_native_american_sachem | |
| 15:52, 2 September 2006 |  | 404 × 450 (18 KB) | Thuresson | larger | |
| 15:47, 24 December 2005 |  | 288 × 321 (17 KB) | Walden69 | Ninigret, narraganssett chief. Is the only truly reliable picture of a Southern New England Indian of the era, a portrait of the young Niantic-Narragansett sachem Ninigret II, son of the Ninigret who was such an ally to the colonists during King Philip's |
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