Samuel Hopkins Lambdin
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Samuel Hopkins Lambdin

James Reid Lambdin, born Pittsburgh, PA 1807-died KY 1889 · 1850

watercolor on ivory
Smithsonian American Art Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Samuel Hopkins Lambdin, the artist’s younger brother, was born in Pittsburgh, but settled in Natchez, Mississippi. He became president of the Planters Bank of Mississippi, and in 1865 served as a delegate to the Reconstruction Convention. This miniature was exhibited in 1911 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts tenth annual Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters show.

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