Arthur St. Clair

Arthur St. Clair

Charles Willson Peale

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arthur St. Clair (1736-1818) was a Scottish-born statesman, the ninth president of the Continental Congress, and later a major general in the revolutionary war. Peale recorded painting this miniature in July 1780 as a gift for the sitter.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.