Thomas Carlyle (British, 1812 - 1837) portrait of Captain Oliver Brown (1753 - 1846), oil miniature, signed T. Carlyle 1835, inscribed on back "Captain Oliver Brown's miniature, T. Carlyle May 1835, Liverpool". Measures 2 x 1.5 inch, mounted in gilt bronze frame, very good condition. Captain Oliver Brown : an officer of the Revolutionary Army his His tombstone reads as follows: "Captain Oliver Brown / Born at Lexington, Mass 1752 / Died February 17, 1846 at age 94". Captain Oliver Brown of the Massachusetts Line, Rev. War. -- He stood in front of the first cannon fired by the British on the Americans in the affray at Lexington; witnessed the tea party in Boston Harbor; was at the battle of Bunker Hill; Commissioned by Congress January 16, 1776; commanded the volunteer party that bore off the leaden statue of King George from the Battery of New York and made it into bullets for the American army; bore a conspicuous part in the command of artillery at The battle of White Plains, Harlan [Harlem] Heights, Princeton, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. After serving his country he enlisted in the armies of the Son of God, and surrendered to the last enemy of on the 17th day of Feb. 1846 in full assurance of a never ending peace. From the Francis Hopkinson Family Archives