Stephen Hooper

Henry Pelham

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stephen Hooper was a merchant from Newburyport, Massachusetts. Pelham wrote the following note in 1773: "Agreeable to your directions, I have done your portrait in Miniature and have had it sett in Gold."

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art