FROM THE COLLECTION

The Museum houses a small but exquisite collection of American decorative arts and furniture. It displays one of the finest collections of family portraits in the United States. Major American artists like John Singer Sargent - a descendant of the Sargent family, who loved the house and its ties to Post-Revolutionary Gloucester - as well as Thomas Sully and James Frothingham are well-represented. The Museum owns several Robert Sheraton pieces of furniture, as well as furniture made in major American furniture centers like Boston, Salem, Newburyport and New Orleans.