Portrait of a Young Woman
Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1830, oil on canvas, Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund, public domain, 40.44
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- Title
Portrait of a Young Woman
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1830
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
35 1/4 in x 28 1/2 in
- Collection Area
American Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund
- Accession Number
40.44
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Field studied briefly with Samuel F.B. Morse in New York and went on to develop a career as an itinerant portrait painter through commissions from a network of family associations in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. He eventually expanded his subject matter to include landscape, biblical, and American historical and patriotic subjects, and even took up the new medium of photography. After 1841, his portraits were copies of his daguerreotypes, and lacked the expressive characterization and decorative power of Portrait of a Young Woman, from his earlier body of work in Connecticut.
