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Sarah Yocum McFadden Boyle - a mouthful of names for an artist - and yes, she used every one of them. A native of Philadelphia, she studied with Howard Pyle. Pyle produced the best - N.C. Wyeth, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Violet Oakley. You can see the influence though she never achieved their celebrity. But “Little Sleepy Dragonfly” did. A star all on his own, Dragonfly has even been turned into stained glass. Held in the collection of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, “Little Sleepy Dragonfly” was gifted to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with many other stellar pieces in 1954. ************************************* Sarah Yocum McFadden Boyle (active 1909-1940), “Little Sleepy Dragonfly” 1928. @philamuseum #PhiladelphiaMuseumofArt *********************************** #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MinaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #AmericanArt #elleshushan #HistoricArt #AmericanPortraitMiniature #SleepyLittleDragonfly (at Philadelphia Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0mKVpWH6FV/?igshid=gvjpvuy8nhlv

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The first of the French emigre artists to arrive in the New Republic, Pierre Henri remained itinerant his entire life. After surviving a shipwreck in the West Indies, in 1788, Henri appeared in New York City. Though his trip to America had taken 12 years, he advertised as “lately arrived from France.” Henri was adroit at sniffing out important clientele, so when, in 1789, the government moved to Philadelphia, Henri followed. There he found a wife then started a family before again hitting the road. Between 1790 and 1820, Henri worked in Alexandria, New York, Baltimore, Richmond, New Orleans and Charleston, advertising that he “takes likenesses in miniature, from the size of a small ring to that of the largest locket.” Unique among miniature painters then working in America, Henri adroitly created groups of sitters. In about 1800, probably to accompany him on his journeys, Henri executed this delightful portrait of his family, with a self-portrait in miniature within the miniature, the whole on 3 3/8 inches (8.6 cm) wide. ******************************** See this enchanting portrait in the magnificent new exhibition “Jewelry for America” - American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art. ******************************** @metmuseum @metamericanwing #BethCarverWees #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #WearableArt #AmericanArt #elleshushan #HistoricArt #AmericanArt #AmericanPortraitMiniature #JewelryWithAFace #MetMuseum #MetropolitanMuseumofArt #AmericanWing #PierreHenri #FrenchEmigreArtist #FamilyPortait #FromtheArchives (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/By6Za1pHb5c/?igshid=16ba1qsvnpm91

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It’s Flag Day🇺🇸Celebrate🇺🇸 Two patriotic American girls proudly parading flag bows. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Celebrate with them at Antiques in Manchester, August 7 & 8. @antiquesinmanchester 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #AntiquesinManchester #CollectorsFair #NHAntiquesWeek #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #HistoricArt #elleshushan #AmericanArt #AmericanFlag #AmericanPortraitMiniature #AmericanChildren #JewelryWithAFace #WearableArt #PatrioticArt #FlagDay🇺🇸 (at Antiques in Manchester The Collectors Fair) https://www.instagram.com/p/BysyfRjnrvW/?igshid=5nijr90m6kj

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Sometimes it just happens - artists, virtually untrained - produce works which shimmer with beauty. Laura Coombs Hills was one. She was already renowned for her landscapes and flower paintings, when, on a trip to England in 1890, Hills discovered portrait miniatures. Without an awareness of their history or technique, she invented her own - working in sweeping colors on an unusually large format. Her remarkable portraits resembled nothing that had been seen before, their artistry gaining her instant fame. Hills was the first miniaturist to be admitted to the Society of American Artists, and, in 1898, she was a founder of the American Society of Miniature Painters. The year before her death in 1952, Hills, a lifelong resident of Boston and Newburyport, gifted the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 15 miniatures - an invaluable testament to her glistening talent. ************************************* Laura Coombs Hills “The Red Flower” (Dorothy Bass Whitney) 1904, @mfaboston ************************************* #MuseumofFineArtsBoston #LauraCoombsHills #BostonPortrait #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #elleshushan #AmericanPortraitMiniature #AmericanArt #HistoricArt @european.portrait.miniatures - with thanks! (at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxx5HXMnzPk/?igshid=1jq87e427mml5

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Swagger. It was missing from American miniatures until Henry Inman. In 1814 at the tender age of 13, Inman began an eventful 7 year apprenticeship with the eccentic and ridiculously talented John Wesley Jarvis. Inman learned quickly; he and Jarvis sometimes finished 6 portraits a week, with Jarvis painting the faces and Inman executing the rest. But Jarvis also taught Inman what not to do. After 7 years of dragging his inebriated master out of gutters, the sober Inman took a wife, then set up his own studio in New York City - the first American artist to treat his talent as a business. A founder member of the National Academy of Design, Inman reigned as New York’s leading portraitist for almost 20 years. President Martin Van Buren, John James Audubon and Fanny Kemble all sat to him. In 1844, two years before his untimely death, with commissions to paint William Wordsworth and Thomas Macaulay, Inman left for England, producing some of his strongest work while there. ******************************** By Henry Inman, circa 1830. ******************************** #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #AmericanPortrait #elleshushan #HistoricArt #AmericanPortraitMiniature #HenryInman #Swagger #19thcentury https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw8PjIsnkJC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hq4hn4pwoyb1

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Anne Willing married up; money followed her. The daughter of the mayor of Philadelphia, the richest man in the colonial city, she married William Bingham, Senator from the State of Pennsylvania, a founder of the First Bank of North America and the richest man in America. Anne’s daughter married Alexander Baring, who was even richer than Bingham. Anne was a great beauty; she was the model for the “draped bust” image on the American silver dollar. And, she was a political force in her own right. A confidante of Thomas Jefferson, she described in a letter to him the influence women in Paris held. She praised their ability to “interfere in the politics of the Country, and often give a decided turn to the fate of empires.” Anne returned from Paris to host the most powerful partisan salon in Philadelphia, then the capital of United States. Her drawing room, a center for informal conversation and debate, attracted John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and even George Washington. *************************** Anne Willing Bingham by William Russell Birch (1755-1834) enamel on copper, circa 1795. In the magnificent collection of The American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art. @metamericanwing ************************** #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #EnamelPortrait EnamelPortraitMiniature #HistoricArt #AmericanPortrait #elleshushan #AmericanPortraitMiniature #AnneWillingBingham #WilliamBingham #ThomasWilling #WilliamRussellBirch #MiniatureMonday https://www.instagram.com/p/BwApRnoHTry/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1b21jv06r2nmh

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If the probably apocraphal tale is to be believed, miniaturist Jean Francois de la Vallee met Thomas Jefferson in Paris. Concerned about the political climate in France, the artist inquired about opportunities in America. Jefferson purportedly told him the cotton mill was the wave of the future. What is true - Vallee did briefly own a cotton mill in Virginia, before going bankrupt. His next job was running a dancing school in Philadelphia while taking miniatures up and down the East Coast, as far south as Charleston. Earning enough to move on, in 1808, Vallee settled in the French community of New Orleans. There he found the success he had been seeking. His pinnacle was the commission from General Andrew Jackson after the Battle of New Orleans for a miniature to be presented to Louisiana governor Edward Livingston. Old Hickory - who wasn’t yet “Old Hickory” - but was apparently already working on his carefully curated craggy character, is said to have disliked the “Frenchified” image. ****************************** Jean Francois de la Vallee, “Portrait of Andrew Jackson,” 1815, with a note by Jackson presenting the portrait to Governor Livingston. In the collection of Historic Hudson Valley. @inthevalley1 ****************************** #HistoricHudsonValley #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #AmericanPortrait #AmericanPortraitMiniature #HistoricArt #elleshushan #PresidentalPortrait #PresidentalMiniature #MiniatureMonday #AndrewJackson #GeneralAndrewJackson #JeanFrancoisdelaVallee #EdwardLivingson #BattleofNewOrleans ⚜️ https://www.instagram.com/elleshushan/p/BtekzQaHASe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=812ax8mgbga0

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💥🎉💥🎉💥🎉💥🎉💥 #HappyNewYear #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #HistoricArt #AmericanPortrait #elleshushan #AmericanPortraitMiniature #FolkArt #AmericanFolkPortrait #TheWinterShow https://www.instagram.com/elleshushan/p/BsFtz_-nkSM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4ps3a2gc52vq

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“Mary and Mammy” a portrait miniature of singular love and dignity, painted circa 1925 by Southern artist Sarah Eakin Cowan. The identities of the sitters have been lost, but the power of the portrait remains. *** In the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum @americanartmuseum #SAAM *** #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #HistoricArt #elleshushan #AmericanPortraitMiniature #AmericanSocietyofMiniaturePainters #SarahEakinCowan #InternationalWomensMonth (at Smithsonian American Art Museum)

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A Dollar Princess's Dreams - Jeannie Chamberlain was the richest and prettiest girl in Cleveland, Ohio. After her 1882 debut in Newport where she was described as "the most exquisite young person of her day," she and her mother set sail for London to find Jeannie a prince. She quickly landed THE prince - the dissolute, rotund, married Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. He named his yacht 'Jeannie.' She called him 'Jumbo.' His wife, Princess Alexandra, called her 'Miss Chamberpot.' Since the Prince was unavailable, Jeannie married his pal, the dashing Captain Herbert Naylor-Leland. Much to Jeannie's joy, he was created 1st Baronet Naylor-Leland of Hyde Park House, Albert Gate, London (his title actually the address of the opulent home she had purchased for them, now the opulent French Embassy). Jeannie finally got her title. Naming her first son Albert Edward after the Prince of Wales, the Prince stood as godfather. After her husband's untimely death, Jeannie continued to entertain lavishly - mostly the Prince of Wales. Painted by Manhattan society artist Clausen Coope on one of her many triumphant trips home to America as "Lady Jeannie," this magnificent miniature is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. @nyhistory #newyorkhistoricalsociety #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #DollarPrincess #HistoricArt #RevivalMiniature #EdwardVII #NaylorLeland #AmericanPortraitMiniature #AmericanPortraiture #elleshushan #RoyalScandal #GildedAge #Anglophile #FrenchEmbassy #BritishRoyalty #MiniaturePortrait (at New-York Historical Society)

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American miniatures - so very different from those in Britain and Europe - at their best, there were none better. Heiress Susan Bayard - she and her sister were known as 'The Beautiful Bayards'- was the daughter of fabulously wealthy New York merchant William Bayard. In 1807, Susan literally married the boy next door, Benjamin Woolsey Rogers. She documented her marriage with this miniature by emerging American master, 27 year old Anson Dickinson. Like most American miniaturists of the Federal period, Dickinson received minimal instruction, teaching himself as he worked. His most ambitious portrait to date, Dickinson employed a rectangular format which was virtually unknown in America at the time. Dickinson would work for 48 years, leaving an account book recording almost 2000 miniatures. But in 1807, this important commission from the Beautiful Bayard would be his artistic game-changer. #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #HistoricArt #MiniaturePortrait #AmericanArt #AmericanPortraitMiniature #elleshushan #AmericanPortraiture #AnsonDickinson #AmericanPortrait

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A miniature masterwork of American Folk Art. The artist's wife, Hannah Maria by Richard W. M. DaLee. Advertising themselves as "Side Portrait Painters," the DaLee Family artists - Justis, his wife Mary Ann, brother Richard and son Amon traveled from Massachusetts to Ohio producing their distinctive miniature profiles. See more of the DaLee family @WinterAntiquesShow #WinterAntiques #FolkArt #AmericanFolkArt #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #elleshushan #HistoricArt #AmericanArt #AmericanPortraitMiniature #AmericanPortrait

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Revival Miniatures - unlike anything that came before. The most distinctive - Boston artist Laura Coombs Hills. A self-taught miniaturist of shimmering talent, Hills was a founder member of the American Society of Miniature Painters, executing over 300 portraits during her career. 'The Nymph' is one of the many extraordinary Hills in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. @mfaboston #MFABoston, #MuseumofFineArtsBoston #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #AmericanPortraitMiniature #AmericanPortrait #elleshushan #HistoricArt #BostonArtist #LauraCoombsHills #MiniaturePortrait #BostonPortrait