Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 51r
Notes:
On list of "Paintings and Drawings done."
A profile portrait of Laurens by Du Simitière was one of a set of fourteen engraved and published in Paris by Benoît-Louis Prévost (ca. 1735-ca. 1804) in 1781 as Collection des Portraits des Généraux, Ministres & Magistrats qui se sont rendus célèbres dans la Révolution des Treize Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale.
Henry Laurens (1724-1792), merchant, planter, and a leading patriot of Charleston, S.C., was at the time of this donation a delegate to the Second Contrinental Congress (having served as President 1777-1778).
