Unknown Artist/Maker, Portrait of Aaron Rodriguez Rivera, Watercolor on parchment, 1825-30
Title:
Portrait of Aaron Rodriguez Rivera
Date:
1825-30
Medium:
Watercolor on parchment
Dimensions:
3 5/16 × 2 5/8 in. (8.4 × 6.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Beverly and Arnold Franco
Accession Number:
JM 8-79

Not On View

A profile miniature of a member of the Rivera, a distinguished Sephardic family of Newport, Rhode Island.
Little is known of Aaron Rodriguez Rivera (1793-1838). He lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, for most of his adult life. Descended from Abraham Rodriguez de Rivera (d. 1765) who had fled the Portuguese Inquisition and founded families in New York and Newport, he was named for his maternal grandfather, the wealthy Newport merchant and trader, Aaron Lopez.

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