#Lydia Field Emmet

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Lydia Field Emmet (American, 1866-1952): Goldfish, a Portrait of Roland and Peter Hazard (1921) (via Bonhams)

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"Spring and Autumn stained glass window designed by Lydia Field Emmet for the Samuel Bankcroft House in Wilmington, Delaware. Now at the Delaware Art Museum."

Lydia Field Emmet (January 23, 1866 – August 16, 1952) was an American artist best known for her work as a portraitist. She studied with, among others, prominent artists such as William Merritt Chase, Harry Siddons Mowbray, Kenyon Cox and Tony Robert-Fleury. Emmet exhibited widely during her career, and her paintings can now be found hanging in the White House, and many prestigious art galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Lydia Field Emmet William Merritt Chase

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Lydia Field Emmet by William Merritt Chase, c. 1892

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Late Victorian fashions:

1889 Eloísa Aguilar de Dios by Gustave Graef (Setdart - 21Dec21 auction Lot 109). From invaluable.com-auction-lot-gustave-graef-germany-1821-1895-portrait-of-elois-c-E594A2FA32 2406X3708 @150 2.7Mj.

1892 Lydia Field Emmet by William Merritt Chase (Brooklyn Museum - New York City, New York, USA). From brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/68 via tumblr.com/blog/view/william-merritt-chase/671932144653893632 744X1493 @72 350kj.

1890s Evelyn Elizabeth Brinton (née Forbes) by Alice Hughes. From tumblr.com/blog/view/jeannepompadour.

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Boy and his Dog - Lydia Field Emmet - circa 1900

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NOW ON VIEW in the American Art Galleries: Lydia Field Emmet

Back on view in the American galleries is William Merritt Chase’s striking full-length portrait of Lydia Field Emmet, another successful portrait painter of the era. Emmet’s direct gaze and bold pose, with her elbow assertively aimed at the viewer, speak to her spirit of independence. She began her artistic training in the early 1880s in Paris at the Academie Julien, and when she returned to her native state of New York after in 1885, she worked as an illustrator for Harpers & Brothers, as well as a decorative designer, where she designed stained glass windows for the Tiffany Glass Company.

Emmet studied under Chase at the Art Students League from 1889 to 1895 and served as an instructor at his painting summer school in Shinnecock, New York. This portrait was painted at the time she was preparing a mural titled Art, Science, and Literature for the Women’s Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Emmet’s income was largely derived from painting portraits—particularly those of children— and she was in great demand after 1900, making her a rare example of a professional woman artist of her generation.

Posted by Serda Yalkin William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916). Lydia Field Emmet, 1892. Oil on canvas, 72 x 36 1/8 in. (182.9 x 91.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 15.316

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Portrait of Lydia Field Emmet, by William Merritt Chase, Brooklyn Museum, New York City.

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Self-Portrait. Lydia Field Emmet (American, 1866-1952). Oil on canvas. National Academy Museum, New York.

Emmet produced miniatures as well as full-scale portraits. Her sitters were men and women prominent in business, education, and society. Perhaps her most celebrated subject was Mrs. Herbert Hoover, whose official White House portrait she executed.

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William Merritt Chase / “Lydia Field Emmet” / 1900 / Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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Lydia Field Emmet, William Merritt Chase

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-merritt-chase/lydia-field-emmet

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Lydia Field Emmet (American, 1866-1952): In Her First Youth (1892) (via McClung Museum)

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Lydia Field Emmet

William Merritt Chase

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Lydia Field Emmet (detail)

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Lydia Field Emmet (1892). William Merritt Chase.

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The *fully digitized* Emmet Family papers document the lives and careers of two generations of the Emmet family, particularly sisters Lydia Field Emmet, Jane Erin Emmet de Glehn, and Rosina Emmet Sherwood; their mother, Julia Colt Pierson Emmet; and their cousin Ellen Gertrude "Bay" Emmet - all noted painters and illustrators, whose artistic talents flourished during the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries.

Image Citation: Watercolour Sketch of Flowers, 1850-1900 from Emmet Family papers