The Foster Children, 1838

| Eliza Goodridge (1798-1882)
| watercolor on ivory
| 4 x 3 3/8 (10.1600 x 8.5725)
| Bequest of Dwight Foster Dunn, 1937
| Weis 53

Ex. Coll.: given by the artist in 1838 to Lydia Stiles Foster, to her daughter Mary Stiles Foster Dunn on January 1, 1883, to her son the donor on his twenty-first birthday, December 11, 1886.

Exhibitions:
1957,‘New England Miniatures,’Museum of Fine Arts Boston, no. 62.
1990, ‘Tokens of Affection: The Portrait Miniature in America,’ Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Publications:
Louisa Dresser, ‘Portraits Owned by the American Antiquarian Society,’ The Magazine Antiques 95 (November 1969): 726.

 

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