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Martha Washington
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About this work
In 1757, the year her first husband died, Martha Dandridge Custis (1731-1802) sat for a portrait by John Wollaston. Martha was then only twenty-six years old, and within two years would marry her second husband, George Washington. Wollaston’s portrait of Martha was engraved in 1859 by John Cheney, of the firm Cheney & Kellogg. Cheney then painted this miniature, based on his own engraving.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMartha Washington. ca. 1859. John Cheney, born South Manchester, CT 1801-died South Manchester, CT 1885. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer. CC0.
