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Portrait of a Lady
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
These miniatures display James Sanford Ellsworth’s unique approach to painting his sitters. They are shown in profile, seated in a Victorian armchair with their hands crossed. The chair appears to dissolve into a swirling arabesque, with a “clover-leaf” halo surrounding the sitter’s head and cloudlike forms in the background.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePortrait of a Lady. ca. 1850. James Sanford Ellsworth, born Windsor, CT 1802-died Pittsburgh, PA 1874. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Elizabeth Spencer. CC0.
