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Transatlantic currents: paintings at MESDA.
For decades it was believed that there was little of significance produced in the early South and that whatever was owned there was surely purchased from abroad. This attitude contains some truth in that, to a greater degree than elsewhere in America, southern colonists patronized British painters when traveling abroad. As early as 1735, when William Byrd II (1674-1744) walked through Westover, his mansion house on the banks of the James River in Virginia, he was surrounded by at least thirty portraits of friends, family, and distant relations--a collection that was surely one of the largest in the British colonies. Most of the paintings were indeed acquired in England, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Transatlantic currents: paintings at MESDA.