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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Colonel John Moore and His Wife Frances Lambert Moore of New York, 1725
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Born in Dublin, Ireland to a French Huguenot family, Henrietta Johnston
was America's first pastel painter, doing nearly forty portraits of
prominent people in Charleston, South Carolina. Her body of work
is an important documentary of leading people in an important area in
American history, and about 30 of her works survive.
Since pastels were not available in America when she arrived, she
obviously brought supplies with her. She used 9 x 12 sheets of
paper a (showing 500 of 4211 characters). |
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