Photograph - Colonel Jonathan Samuel Wilcox Portrait
1791 – 1875
High quality, matted, black and white photos of original oil portraits. 10" x 8" B&W portrait
Son of Jonathan Wilcox 1753 - 1818, of East Guilford
Sixth descendant from John Willcocks, one of the founders of Hartford and from Chris Todd, one of the founders of New Haven. Captain of Militia received and entertained Lafayette in his home (still standing on the green in 1824).
Of the portrait painted in 1852 by an itinerant painter, he remarked: " I am told it is a tolerable likeness."
Loaned by his daughter Constance Wilcox Pignatelli
Originally photographed by Howard Cooley.
Son of Jonathan Wilcox 1753 - 1818, of East Guilford
Sixth descendant from John Willcocks, one of the founders of Hartford and from Chris Todd, one of the founders of New Haven. Captain of Militia received and entertained Lafayette in his home (still standing on the green in 1824).
Of the portrait painted in 1852 by an itinerant painter, he remarked: " I am told it is a tolerable likeness."
Loaned by his daughter Constance Wilcox Pignatelli
Originally photographed by Howard Cooley.
Loaned by his granddaughter Constance Wilcox Pignatelli
2019.043.001