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Mrs. Samuel C. Waldo (Grizzel Oliver)

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Description: Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
~In 1758 or 1759 Benjamin West, then a struggling young artist, limned his self-portrait, housed it in a silver locket, and offered it to Elizabeth Steele of Philadelphia, along with a proposal of marriage (fig. 24). She accepted the love token but not the hand of the man who painted it. Soon afterward, West left America for good,...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.37-73
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00078.006

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