Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portrait of a Lady
James Sanford Ellsworth, born Windsor, CT 1802-died Pittsburgh, PA 1874 · ca. 1850
These miniatures display James Sanford Ellsworth’s unique approach to painting his sitters. They are shown in profile, seated in a Victorian armchair with their hands crossed. The chair appears to dissolve into a swirling arabesque, with a “clover-leaf” halo surrounding the sitter’s head and cloudlike forms in the background.
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