Mrs. Richard Peters (Abigail Willing)

Mrs. Richard Peters (Abigail Willing)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Abigail Willing Peters (1777-1841) was the daughter of the prominent Philadelphian Thomas Willing. This miniature relates to the 1797 oil portrait of her by Gilbert Stuart (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia).

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.