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Portrait of Hiram Powers' Daughter
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About this work
This girl is thought to be Louisa Greenough Powers, the sculptor Hiram Powers’s oldest daughter. In this portrait, she is about ten or eleven years old and wears a white robe and holds a cross, symbolizing her purity and innocence. Miner Kilbourne Kellogg painted her face to reflect the quality of marble, as if to pay homage to Hiram Powers’s rank as the leading American sculptor of his day. Kellogg may have painted this portrait as a token of thanks to Powers for securing him a studio in Florence.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePortrait of Hiram Powers' Daughter. n.d.. Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Martha F. Butler. CC0.
