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Isaac Collins

Isaac Collins Oil on canvas
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Oil on canvas by unidentified artist, 1796

59 cm x 48.8 cm; in frame 68 cm x 57.5 cm x 3.5 cm

Formerly attributed to John Brewster

Artwork 01.088


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[ This description is from the project: Revolutionary-era Art and Artifacts ]

This portrait of Isaac Collins, a veteran of the Revolution and a midshipman in the navy, was completed by John Brewster (1766-1854) in 1796.

Isaac Collins was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1756. He served in the army during the Revolution from 1776 to 1777 and entered the naval service as a midshipman in 1778. As a master's mate he served on two vessels captured by the British. Imprisoned in England's Mill Prison in 1780, he and four others escaped in 1781. Collins died in Gloucester in 1834.