Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart
c. 1822-23
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; given in honor of Stewart W. Bowers
Accession Number
S/NPG.2017.74
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
In 1823, Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart and her husband, Charles, traveled to Hawai‘i with the second company of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The arrival of these early U.S. missionaries coincided with a gradual social transition in Hawaiian society, which included shifts in religion and land regulation. With the support of King Kamehameha II, the missionaries orchestrated the conversion of Ka¯naka Maoli, or Native Hawaiians, to Christianity.