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Painting and Portrait Making in the American Northeast

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
24 through 26 June 1994

CONTENTS

Introduction and Commentary
Ellen G. Miles

SECTION I: ARTS OF PORTRAITURE IN THE EARLY COLONIES

Seventeenth-Century Boston Portraiture: Profile of the Establishment
Abbott Lowell Cummings

The Emergence of the Portrait Miniature in New England
Carol Aiken

SECTION II: NEW ENGLAND PORTRAIT AND MINIATURE PAINTERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES

The Brothers Blyth: Salem in Its Heyday
Bettina A. Norton

The Portraits of Richard and William Jennys and the Story of Their Wayfaring Lives
William Bright Jones

Frederick Mayhew, “Limner”: Portraits of Early-Nineteenth-Century New Bedford and Martha’s Vineyard
Andrew L. Thomas

New England and New York Portrait Makers in Canada, 1760–1860
Lydia Foy

SECTION III: IMAGING AND REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

1803—The Year of the Physiognotrace
Ellen G. Miles

Machine-Assisted Portrait and Profile Imaging in New England after 1803
Peter Benes

William J. Weaver’s Secret Art of Multiplying Pictures
Paul D. Schweizer

The Portrait Painter and Engraver: Cooperation and Conflict
Leah Lipton

SECTION IV: GENDER, ICONOGRAPHY, AND AESTHETICS

“The rising Prospect or the lovely Face”: Conventions of Gender in Colonial American Portraiture
Deborah I. Prosser

Facing Paintings and Painting Faces before Lavater
David Steinberg

Toward a New Understanding of the Aesthetics of “Folk” Portraits
Ellen Hickey Grayson

SECTION V: PORTRAIT MAKING IN THE ERA OF DAGUERREOTYPES AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Erastus Salisbury Field: Mezzographs and Other Experiments with Photography in Portrait Painting
Diane E. Forsberg

Horace Bundy: Portraits Painted from Daguerreotypes
Lauren B. Hewes

“The Visage Once So Dear”: Interpreting Memorial Photographs
Deborah A. Smith

SECTION VI: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES

Bibliography of Studies of Painting and Portrait Making in the American Northeast and Contiguous Portions of Canada before 1860
Lecture and Museum Program
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photo and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors