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Gilbert Stuart, 1755-1828
Sarah Goodridge, a New England miniaturist who took informal instruction from Gilbert Stuart in the early 1820s, painted this miniature at Stuart's request around 1825. He was then the most famous artist in Boston, and Goodridge was taken with his formidable personality and craggy features. As Stuart's daughter recorded, "[Goodridge] seemed to be quite overcome at the idea. . . . [The miniature] is the most life-like of anything ever painted of him." Goodridge made at least three nearly identical miniatures, and the image was engraved.
Sarah Goodridge, c 1825 |