Charles Ethan Porter was an American painter who specialized in still life painting. A student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, he was one of the first African Americans to exhibit there. He was the only African-American artist at the turn of that century who painted in still life.
Charles Ethan Porter
Civil war soldier, 1872
Boy and Book, c 1880
Peonies in a Bowl, 1885,
Rockville is a census-designated place and a village of the town of Vernon in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The village is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The population was 7,920 at the 2020 census. Incorporated as a city in 1889, it has been consolidated with the town of Vernon since 1965.
Downtown Rockville from Fox Hill in 2015
George Maxwell Memorial Library, photograph from 2006
St. Joseph's Church in downtown.
George Maxwell Memorial Library, postcard mailed in 1911.