Mrs. John Jordan, Jr. ~ 1848
John Henry Brown (Born: Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1818, Died: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1891)
watercolor on ivory
image: sight 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.6 x 6.1 cm) oval
” We know nothing about this woman, who appears here in a simple dress of sheer fabric, with a small locket at her throat. The locket may contain a miniature, as artists during the nineteenth century often showed their sitters wearing a token similar to the one being painted. ”
{ via: Smithsonian American Art Museum }
