Mary Maccarty Stiles (1807-72), c. 1837

| Eliza Goodridge (1798-1882)
| watercolor on ivory
| 3 1/2 x 2 11/16 (8.8900 x 6.8262)
| Bequest of Harriet E. Clarke, 1944
| Weis 87

Ex. Coll.: sitter, probably to her sister Lydia Stiles Foster, to her daughter, Rebecca Faulkner Foster Clarke, to her daughter the donor.

Exhibitions:
1990, "Tokens of Affection: The Portrait Miniature in America," Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1993, "Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840," Baltimore Museum
of Art.

Publications:
Wendy A. Cooper, Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840 (New York: Baltimore Museum of Art and Abbeville Press, 1993): 218.

 

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