Art in Province Proves Culture Unusual in Newly Settled Area

S. c -; -t.ta Johnson reciVacT latingtinor is no available evidence to show tl are of flowering trees in their nat of them. The late Rev. Dr. Robert whether she was spinster, wife or ural colors, and two of these are fur Art in Province Proves Culture Wilson, in an article published in the widow. Her signatures to her por ther adorned by a butterfly each; 3 "Year Book©1 of the city of Charles traits furnish the correct spelling of flowering trees have twining plants ton for 1899 and republished in his <?rowin» through them, and one of "Half Forgotten By-Ways of the Old her name. Unusual in Newly Settled Area; In the preface to "The Natural His there is further embel©UV.r*:! by i South" (Columbia. 1028). says that he butterfly; one flowering plam was had identified 15 of her portrait©. tory of Carolina, Florida and the Ba The earliest of her portrait found hama Islands: Containing the Figures Many Early Paintings Yet Extant by Doctor Wilson were thr^e said to of Birds. Beasts, Fishes. Serpents, In painted alone, while 5 appear with be of Mrs, William Wragg, Mrs. Sam sects and Plants," Mark Catesby, its butterflies and 2 with other insects. uel Wragg and a Mrs. Wragg whose author, says: , Of the 20 paintings reproduced m husband©s name he did not discover, "I set out again from England, in the appendix, one is of a bird and Some First Families,*© Notably Huguenots, Brought all dated 1708. These nortraits were the year 1722, directly for Carolina; an insect; 5 are of birds with flower paint ?d before the Wragg brothers which Country, tho© inhabited by Eng ing plants; 4 are of flowering plants Portraits With Them Artists in Charles Town by were married. Joseph Wragg married lish above an Age past, and a coun with insects; one is of a solitary plant; in 1717 Judith DuBosc. which was try inferior to none in fertility, and 3 are of flowering trees; one IK of a 1705 First Fully Identified With Colony Was then the spelling of the present name, abounding in variety of the blessings chimney swallow on its nest inside of DuBose- Samuel Wragg married her of nature; yet its productions being a chimney; one is of a flowering plant Henrietta Johnson Catesby, Theus, Gordon, Bern- Ister. Marie DuBosc. and no wife very little known, except what barf with both a bird and an insect; one for William has so far *been found ly related to Commerce, such as Rice, is of two species of birds; 2 are of bridge, Leech and Others Some Adventures in "»> any writ* on the history of the Fitch and Tar; was thought the mast animals and trees and one is of two family. As the portraits wore found species of fishes. Seeking "Lost" Works, proper Place to search and descYibe Although Catesby declared himself in possession of descendants of the the Productions of: accordingly 1 ar- no academic painter, it would be dif A miniature of Isaac Mazyck, one 6 Wragg family, with the family tra riv©d in Carolina 23d of May 1722. BY A. S. SALLEY. dition thai they were wives of Wragg "Upon my arrival at Charles Town. ficult to find a more beautiful and the Huguenot emigrants, was evi men, they are most probably of Ju artistic set of nature paintings. They Frontier settlements are usually dently painted before 1700. The sub I waited on General Nicholson, then so challenged the admiration of many crude. The inhabitants are crude; ject was born in 1661, and the pcr- Governor of that Province, who re of the leading patrons of the arts their habitations are crude; their liv trait is that of a man under 40, and dith and Marie DuBosc and the lady ceived me with much kindness, and and sciences in England in his day ing conditions are crude; wealth is who subsequently married William continued his favours during my stay was probably brought with him. A in that country. that they readily joined in promoting lacking and educational development fine pair of portraits of Jacques Le- Wragg, as Henrietta Johnson died be the publication of the first edition is slow. It is only after wealth ar Serurier and his wife, nee Elizabeth fore either of the Wraggs had been "... The inhabitated Parts of of this great work, rives that culture develops. As a con Leger, who came from Picardy after married long enough to have grown Carolina extend West from the Sea An artist who began painting In sequence, il is usually a long time the Edict of Nantes, are said to have daughters or sons old enough to have about sixty Miles, and almost the Charles Town as early as 1735 was after the beginning of a frontier set been painted by ©Madame Serurier wives. Three portraits are dated 1710. whole length of the coast, being a Benjamin Roberts. In The South- tlement in a new and undeveloped One is of Catherine LeNoble, daugh level, low country. In thes? Parts I herself. A fine portrait of their daugh continued the first Year, searching Carolina Gazette in May of that year country that the fine arts receive ter. Catherine, who married Henry ter of Henrietta LeNoble. a Huguenot he gave "Notice to all Gentlemen and much attention. LeNoble, was by an artist whose refugee to South Carolina about 1690. after, collectmg and describing the others that Portrait and Engraving, Charles Town, and the Low-Coun She subsequently married Robert Animals and Plants. I thyi went to name has not been learned. the Upper uninhabited Parts of the Heraldry and House Painting are un try of South Carolina, constitute a There was a portrait painter in Taylor. Their daughter. Catherine dertaken and performed expeditiously notable exception to the usual rule. Tavlor, married Gabriel Marion, Country, and continued at and abou*. Charles Town in 1705. He or she there Fort Moore, a small Fortress on the in a good manner and at the lowest There were enough well educated, painted a portrait of the governor of brother of Gen. Francis Marion, and rate." The only known example of cultured men and women from the received Belle Isle plantation, St. Ste Banks of the River Savanna. ... In the province, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, these excursions, I employed an In 1^= ©"©^ "" ^^ " © ^^ ^ iw^^^ ^^ landed gentry and merchants of Eng which is marked "Aetatis 61 Aprill i, phen©s parish, as a "marriage portion." his art is an extended painting of the land among the founders of Charles 1705." Governor Johnson was in South The second is of Susanne LeNoble, dian to carry my Box. in which, be water front of Charles Town done in Town and South Carolina to work an Carolina on that date and had been sister of Catherine, who subsequently sides paper and materials for Paint 1739 and dedicated to Governor Glen, excellent leaven in the whole popu here since 1702, He had been com married Alexander Chastaigner, and, ing, I put dry©d Specimens of Plants, after his death. Rene Louis Rave.iel. Seeds. &c. as I gather©d them." Of who had been appointed governor lation, and cultural development came missioned governor in 1702 and had his work he says: the preceding year but had not yet with unusual rapidity. Wealth rapid taken over the office the latter part The third portrait Doctor Wilson rep arrived in South Carolina. Roberts ly developed there. The clever and of March, 1703. and he remained here resents as that of Mrs. Paul Mazyck, "As I was not bred a Painter, I demonstrated thereon his ability to diplomatic English merchants werej until his death in 1712. This portrait, but in that he is evidently mistaken hope some faults in Perspective, and as Catherine Chastaigner, wife of Paul other niceties, may be more readily paint coats of arms, by placing the sending their traders to remote sec with one of Lady Johnson, passed excused: for I humbly conceive that Glen arms between his dedication tions of the South within the next down through successive descendants \ Mazyck. was horn after that date. She and his key to the buildings. This decade, and long before the close of of Governor Johnson until they came was born September 17, 1711, and Plants, and other Things done in a married Paul Mazyck in August, 1729. Flat, if in an exact manner, may serve painting was engraved, and several the 17th century they had reached into possession of the estate of Mr. the Purpose of Natural History bet copies of the engraving survive. Rob westward as (ar as the Mississippi Frank Heyward of Wappaoola plan The subject of this portrait is, there erts was married in Charles Town river and northward as far as the tation. Cooper river, and were sold fore, yet to be identified, as is to be ter in some Measure, than in a more an undated portrait by Henrietta bold and Painter-like Way. In de January 12. 1737-8. to Mary Holton." Ohio. From the Indians the products by his son, Mr. Nathaniel Heyward, signing the Plants, I always did them About 1737 Jeremiah Thejjjj cime of the forests skins, furs, beeswax, to Mr. John Hill Morgan about 15 Johnson of a man. A portrait listed to Charles Town from Switzerland. honey, nuts and other products were by Doctor Wilson as "Mademoiselle while fresh and just gathered; and years ago. Mr. Morgan collected pic the animals, particularly the Birds, About the same time his brothers. obtained and exported to England tures by American artists only and de Lisle" is dated 1711.

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