John Ludlow Morton

John Ludlow Morton

Nathaniel Rogers

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The sitter (1792-1871) was a landscape and portrait painter. This work is a replica of another miniature of Morton signed by Rogers and dated 1829 (New York Historical Society).

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.