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Item Number: 124923
Title: Beauty’s Legacy : Gilded Age Portraits in America
Author: Gallati, Barbara Dayer
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781907804182
Description: London: Giles, in association with the New-York Historical Society, 2013. 28cm., hardcover, 184pp., 89 color plates. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: Named after a series of charity portraiture shows held by the New York social elite during the 1880s, Beauty’s Legacy examines the remarkable resurgence of portraiture in the USA at the end of the 19th century. It features over 50 paintings from the New-York Historical Society’s collection, including works by John Singer Sargent. Features paintings of famous society men and women like Mrs William Waldorf Astor, Emma Thursby, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mary Barrett Wendell, Reverend Henry Codman Potter, and Mary Gardiner Thompson done by such American artists as John Singer Sargent, James Carroll Beckwith, George Peter Alexander Healy, Daniel Huntington, Eastman Johnson, and Benjamin Curtis Porter.
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