with garnets. This work descended through the Gibbes and Shoolbred families before coming to the Gibbes Museum of Art. In 2006, five watercolor on ivory miniatures of children, a group of cousins from the Middleton family, were found at Shrublands (the family estate in England) and purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007. Each one measures 1 1/2 x 1 in. (3.8 x 2.5 cm) and is in its original gold case and signed MR and was painted around 1752 -1758. The portrait of Henrietta Middleton is on display at the museum. References Year of birth missing 1761 deaths Colonial American women 18th-century American painters American women painters South Carolina colonial people Painters from South Carolina Portrait miniaturists Artists from Charleston, South Carolina 18th-century American women artists