John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study
Nightingale-Brown House Photos
The following is a selection of Nightingale-Brown House images, including photographs of interior spaces as well as original paintings, furniture, fixtures and ephemera.
House Exterior
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“Mr. Nightingale’s House at Providence, RI,” by Alice Pelham Banniter, ca. 1802
Portraits
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“Jane Lucas Brown,” by Joseph Blackburn, 1754
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“John Nicholas Brown II,” by Gardner Cox, 1967
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“John Carter Brown,” by unknown artist, 1870
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“Sophia Augusta Brown,” by unknown artist, 1870
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“John Nicholas Brown II,” by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1950
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“Anne S. K. Brown,” by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1962
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“John Nicholas Brown I,” by Baer, date unknown
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“The Brown Children,” Charles Cromwell Ingham, ca. 1845
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“Nicholas Brown II,” Chester Harding, ca. 1836
Interior Details
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Nightingale-Brown House Dining Room. Photo by Jesse Banks
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Regency period girandole, early 19th century. Photo by Jesse Banks
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Tall case clock, ca. 1775. Photo by Jesse Banks
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Chippendale arm chair, ca. 1765. Photo by Jesse Banks
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Nightingale-Brown House main hall. Photo by Jesse Banks. The French company Zuber et Cie introduced the scenic wallpaper, “Vues d’Amérique du Nord,” in 1834. John Nicholas Brown installed it in the front hall of the Nightingale-Brown House in the 1920s. According to Duke University Professor Jasmine Cobb, the wallpaper “represented a French fondness for Jacksonian America imagined through notions of racial diversity, industriousness, and democracy.” Partly based on racialized caricatures, this image portrays an imagined egalitarianism that did not exist in 1830s America.
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Nightingale-Brown House library. Photo by Jesse Banks
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Nightingale-Brown House music room. Photo by Jesse Banks
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Chippendale chest of drawers, ca. 1775. Photo by Jesse Banks
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Reproduction secretary desk, by Alan Breed, 1993, after original, ca. 1765. Photo by Jesse Banks.
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Nightingale-Brown House framing model, ca. 1993. Photo by Jesse Banks
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Nightingale-Brown House pantry. Photo by Jesse Banks