File:BrewsterPrinceSon.jpg

Summary
James Prince and Son, William Henry, (1801) by John Brewster, Jr. Prince was a wealthy merchant from Newburyport, a shipping center in Massachusetts. The painter included numerous expensive luxuries to show Prince as wealthy and a gentleman: curtains and a fine floor indicated wealth; the bookcase with books and the desk suggest learning. The boy is symbolized as entering world of adults by his holding a letter.

(From the collection of the Historical Society of Old Newbury)