Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Ruins of Sugar House

Artist John Rogers Vinton (American, 1801 - 1847)

Date1843

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFrame: 17 1/4 x 22 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (43.8 x 56.2 x 3.8 cm)
Sight: 10 1/2 x 15 1/8 in. (26.7 x 38.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineThe Florida Art Collection, Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers

Object number2020.18.214

Collections

MODERN

DescriptionRemains of the Cruger-dePeyster Plantation in what is now New Smyrna Beach, Florida. A Seminole Native American warrior armed with a gunpowder muzzleloader gun surveys the smoking ruins of the coquina sugar mill that was burned down in 1835 during the Second Seminole War (1835–1842).