'Island People: Portraits and Stories from Nantucket' opens at the Nantucket Historical Association
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'Island People: Portraits and Stories from Nantucket' opens at the Nantucket Historical Association
Exhibit highlights include the earliest known painted portrait of a Nantucketer; an exceptional tintype of a leader of the island’s 19th-century Black community; portraits of children with their pets; likenesses of millers, innkeepers, tailors, mothers, sailors, and sweethearts in the NHA’s collection.



NANTUCKET, MASS.- The Nantucket Historical Association is presenting the exhibition Island People: Portraits and Stories from Nantucket in the Whaling Museum, Williams Forsyth Gallery.

This exhibition draws from the NHA’s collection of painted, photographic, and silhouette portraits to highlight both famous and lesser-known Nantucketers whose life stories intersect with the themes and currents of the island’s history.

Most visitors think of stiffly posed sea captains or stuffy men of business when they reflect on what portraits they imagine a historical society like the NHA might display in its museum. However, Nantucket’s history is much more than white whaling captains and wealthy merchant families. The NHA’s collection contains hundreds of painted portraits and thousands of studio photographs representing people from many parts of the island’s diverse past.

Exhibit highlights include the earliest known painted portrait of a Nantucketer; an exceptional tintype of a leader of the island’s 19th-century Black community; portraits of children with their pets; likenesses of millers, innkeepers, tailors, mothers, sailors, and sweethearts in the NHA’s collection. Once on display, the exhibition features over one hundred portraits representing a wide selection of islander likenesses.

Michael R. Harrison, the NHA’s chief curator and Obed Macy Research Chair said, “The individuals presented in this exhibition represent as broad and diverse a range of island people as possible, within the limitations of who sat for portraits in the past and which portraits have survived to be collected. We hope the human face of the island’s past will inspire visits to remember their own family stories and how they relate to Nantucket.”

Learn more and plan your visit today at NHA.org.










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