Anna Watson Stuart

1862
127.0 x 102.0 cm

John Frederick Kensett (1816 – 1906)

Figure de proue de l'Hudson River School et maître portraitiste, Daniel Huntington est célébré pour des œuvres comme Mercy's Dream et son rôle à la National Academy of Design, vous invitant à découvrir son héritage.

Huntington was the preferred portraitist of respectable New York society during the 1860s. Here Mrs. Joseph L. (Anna Watson) Stuart (1817-1881), wife of an Irish-born dry goods merchant turned banker, is seated in a lush landscape. She is dressed in fashionable ermine and laces, and on her right wrist she wears a cameo bracelet, created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. This family heirloom, now in a private collection, is Saint-Gaudens’s most ambitious extant cameo project, featuring six portraits— Mr. (1803-1874) and Mrs. Stuart and their four children Anna (1840-1902), Joseph Jr. (1843-1890), Margaret (1845-1932), and Robert Watson (1847-1920). Each cameo is set in a gold mount with a shell pearl border.

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À propos de cette œuvre

Titre: Anna Watson Stuart
Artiste: John Frederick Kensett
Année: 1862
Dimensions originales: 127.0 x 102.0 cm
Format: Portrait
Statut du droit d'auteur: Domaine public
Numéro d'inventaire: 43.55.2
Couleur dominante: Phthalo Green
Nuance de couleur: Ochre to Sepia