Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portrait of a Lady
George H. Hite, born Urbana, OH 1807-died New York City ca. 1880 · 1851
The artist painted the background of this miniature in a vignette, so that the color fades into the background. When the ivory is viewed without its frame, the smudgy edges of the paint are revealed.
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