John Maunsell

John Ramage

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The British general John Maunsell (1724-1795) sat for Ramage shortly after he and his American wife, Elizabeth Stillwell, had returned to New York State from voluntary exile in Ireland during the revolution. The engraved initials are of a later date and are for Ann Eliza Van Rensselaer, the donor's great-grandmother.

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