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John Singer Sargent, Lizzie B. Dewey (Mrs. Francis Henshaw Dewey II), 1890. Worcester Art Museum.
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Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 3

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see the first post in this series. In this post (the final in the series) we look American paintings of the late19th and early…

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August 15, 2023
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Gilbert Stuart, Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury, 1810-1811, and Russell Sturgis, 1822. Worcester Art Museum.
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Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 2

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see the first post in this series. In this post we look American paintings of the early 19th century at the WAM, and see…

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August 7, 2023
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Freake-Gibbs Painter, John, Elizabeth & Mary Freake, ca. 1670. Worcester Art Museum.
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Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 1

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see the first post in this series. In this post we look at the earliest American paintings at the WAM, and see how they…

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August 1, 2023
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Thomas Lawrence, Mr. & Mrs. James Dunlop, ca. 1825. Worcester Art Museum.
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Worcester Art Museum, European Portraits, part 4

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see the first post in this series. In this post we look at four French, Spanish, and English portraits of the 19th century –…

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July 25, 2023
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Isabella Carr, later Countess Erroll, 1761. Worcester Art Museum.
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Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 3

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see last week’s post. This post looks at six French and English portraits of the 18th century - not room by room, but in…

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July 18, 2023
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Frans van Mieris, Soldier Smoking a Pipe (Self-Portrait), 1662. Photo: Worcester Art Museum.
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Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 2

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see last week's post. This series of posts looks at some of the WAM's portraits from Europe, then portraits from the United States…

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July 11, 2023
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Follower of Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of Giovanna Chevara and her son Giovanni Montalvo, early 1560s. Bronzino, Eleonora of Toledo & Her Son, ca. 1545 (Uffizi Gallery; photo from Wikipedia).
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Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 1

In June 2023 I visited the Worcester Art Museum to see an exhibition of Impressionist art just before it closed. I didn't expect to find much beyond that: Worcester, Massachusetts…

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July 4, 2023