Henry Benbridge Charleston portrait painter.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: November 1, 2000| Author: MACK, ANGELA D. | Copyright information

Anative of Philadelphia, Henry Benbridge (P1. I) settled in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1772 and remained there for nearly twenty years. His only known comments about the society in his adopted city are contained in a letter dated February 21, 1773, to his half-sister Elizabeth Gordon (b. 1752) in Philadelphia:

Every kind of news here is very dull, the only thing attended to is dress & dissipation, & if I come in for [a] share of their superfluous Cash, I have no righ...

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