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Mrs. Richard Yates
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Catherine Brass Yates was the wife of Richard Yates, a senior partner with the New York law firm Yates & Pollock. In this miniature, Mrs. Yates wears a dress and fichu (a scarf worn to fill in a neckline), and her hair is mostly hidden beneath a large bonnet. The painter focused on the sitter’s eyes, which are downcast to suggest a moment of reflection.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMrs. Richard Yates. ca. 1790. Unidentified. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund. CC0.
