Portrait of a Lady
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Portrait of a Lady

Alfred T. Agate, born Sparta, NY 1812-died Washington, DC 1846 · ca. 1840

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

The lady in this portrait wears a hairstyle fashionable with the young during the 1840s and 1850s. It is parted smoothly in the middle with tight clusters of curls over each ear.

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