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Portrait of a Woman with a Shawl
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Erastus Salisbury Field painted this portrait while working as a traveling portrait painter, fulfilling commissions around the Connecticut River valley. Portrait of a Woman with a Shawl is typical of Field’s plain-style portraits, with simplified forms and few shadows. Such portraits contrast with his later dreamscapes and historical and biblical scenes, which are often rich in fantastic and humorous details.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of a Woman with a Shawl. ca. 1825-1850. Erastus Salisbury Field, born Leverett, MA 1805-died Plumtrees, MA 1900. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson. CC0.
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