Stearns' painting, Hannah Duston Killing the Indians (1847)Painting by Junius Brutus Stearns, "Hannah Dustin Killing the Indians," 1847 depicts the killing by Hannah Duston of Indians who had captured her and murdered her newborn daughter in 1697.Barbara Cutter, "The Female Indian Killer Memorialized: Hannah Duston and the Nineteenth–Century Feminization of American Violence," Journal of Women's History, vol. 20, no. 2, 2008; pp 10–33 In the painting Stearns, for reasons that remain unclear, depicts Samuel Lennardson (Duston's fellow captive) as a woman. The six Indian children Duston killed are omitted. A second painting, showing Hannah's husband fleeing with her children, is now lost.Lauren Lessing, "Theatrical Mayhem in Junius Brutus Stearns's Hannah Duston Killing the Indians," American Art, Volume 28, Issue 3, pp. 76-103
