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![]() | Patience Lovell Wright by Robert Edge Pine oil on canvas Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Pine, Robert Edge | ![]() Patience Wright, a Quaker widow from Bordentown New Jersey, looked to support her children by modeling in wax to produce lifelike figures of celebrities, exhibiting them with success in Philadelphia and New York. After a fire destroyed much of her collection, she went to England in 1772, where her artistic skill and engaging bluntness won her a... |
![]() | William Starke Rosecrans by Samuel Woodson Price 1868 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Price, Samuel Woodson | ![]() Description: Portrait of William Starke Rosecrans wearing his military uniform, his body facing front, his head turned to the left, and his gaze directed off to the left. He has a beard and moustache. |
![]() | Jefferson Davis by George Lethbridge Saunders 1849 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Saunders, George Lethbridge | |
![]() | George Brinton Mcclellan by Julian Scott 1888 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Scott, Julian | |
![]() | The Silver Goblet (Lucy May Stanton Self-Portrait) by Lucy May Stanton 1912 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Stanton, Lucy May | ![]() Lucy May Stanton was best known for her impressionistic watercolor-on-ivory portrait miniatures. She lived mostly in Georgia, but studied art in Paris around the turn of the century. An advocate for womans suffrage, Stanton was also well known in the art centers of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. She presents herself in this large-scale portrait,... |
![]() | Joel Chandler Harris by Lucy May Stanton c. 1914 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Stanton, Lucy May | ![]() Joel Chandler Harris, a journalist, humorist, and author of the Uncle Remus stories, lived across the street in Atlanta, Georgia, from Lucy May Stanton when she was a child. She often sat on his knee, listening to his animal stories. When she first asked to paint him in 1906, he queried her desire to paint an old buzzard like me. This is a second,... |
![]() | A Virgin by Abbott Handerson Thayer 1892-1893 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Thayer, Abbott Handerson | |
![]() | William Wirt by Cephas Thompson c. 1809-1810 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Thompson, Cephas | ![]() Description: Portrait of William Wirt wearing a classical drapery, his body facing almost forward, his head turned slightly to the right, and his gaze directed off to the right. |
![]() | Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt by Cephas Thompson c. 1809-1810 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Thompson, Cephas | ![]() Description: Portrait of Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt seated with her body turned to the left, her head slightly tilted, and her gaze directed down. She wears a white Empire-waist dress with short sleeves. Her dark hair is swept back from her face with ringlets falling across her forehead. |
![]() | Charles Lee by Cephas Thompson c. 1810-1811 Smithsonian Institution New York, NY | Thompson, Cephas |
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