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Anne Louisa Tufts

Watercolor on rectangular ivory in red case
10.79 x 8.25 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Baby

Watercolor on ivory
7 x 5.6 cm (2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Baby With Wavy Hair

Watercolor on ivory
6.35 x 5.08 cm (2 1/2 x 2 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Beauty Revealed

1828
Watercolor on ivory
2 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. (6.7 x 8 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Betsy Goodridge

ca. 1840
watercolor on ivory
3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in. (9.4 x 7.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
It is unclear what relation this lady is to Sarah Goodridge, but she may have been an aunt, or an older sister-in-law.
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Beulah Appleton

ca. 1840
watercolor on ivory
sight 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. (6.7 x 5.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
This is a portrait of Sarah Goodridge’s niece, the daughter of Sarah’s sister Beulah and her husband, Thomas Appleton. Sarah also painted another miniature of one of the Appleton children, Sarah, with her cat, Sanko.
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Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons

ca. 1820
watercolor on ivory
sight 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7.0 x 5.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
A leading lawyer in New England, Theophilus Parsons (1750-1813) wrote the Essex Report, which outlined many of the principles for a republican form of government. He helped to draft the Massachusetts state constitution, and also worked to have the federal Constitution ratified. Parsons served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial...
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Eben Goodrich

1823
Ivory in deep black and gold frame
8.25 x 6.35 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Edward Appleton

about 1842
Watercolor on ivory
5.71 x 4.7 cm (2 1/4 x 1 7/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Edward Appleton (1)

ca. 1835
watercolor on ivory
sight 3 5/8 x 3 in. (9.2 x 7.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Edward Appleton was Sarah Goodridge’s nephew, the son of Sarah’s sister, Beulah Goodridge, and Thomas Appleton, who were married in Boston in 1812. In 1851, Sarah bought a house in Reading that she shared with her sister’s family.
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