CC0 · no rights reserved
Portrait of Adelia Ellender
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Adelia Ellender lived in Baltimore, Maryland, where her father was a plasterer. Her dress follows the custom in this period of portraying children as miniature adults. The berries in her hand and the butterfly hovering in a rosebush nearby symbolize not only her childhood innocence but her eventual transformation into a lady.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of Adelia Ellender. ca. 1803-1805. Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins. CC0.
