Exhibition

Fashion on the Ohio Frontier: 1790-1840
Broadbent Gallery: July 26, 2003, to January 18, 2004
Anne Bissonnette, Curator

 

Portrait of Colonel Robert Harper
Oil on canvas by Abel Buel Moore,
made in Ashtabula County, Ohio, 1831 or 1832.
Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society, 70.25.4.

 

Colonel Robert Harper (1791-1851) was a Revolutionary War veteran who settled in Geneva, Northwest Territory, in June 1798. This portrait is currently on display in his home, Shandy Hall, in Geneva, Ohio, which is a site that is part of the Western Reserve Historical Society.

 

 

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