A young, round-cheeked, pale-skinned child wears a red dress and sits in front of a landscape in this vertical portrait painting. Her dark blond hair is parted down the middle and pulled to the sides to make ear-length ringlets that frame her square face. She has faint, arched brows, wide-set, large blue eyes, a tiny nose, and a bow-shaped mouth over a bulb-like chin. The garnet-red dress is patterned with rows of tiny black dots. The bodice has a straight neckline and slate-blue bows over short sleeves. The child’s pink stockings and black shoes tied with bows peek out from the long hem of…
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Little Miss Fairfield

William Matthew Prior (American, 1806 - 1873)

1850

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 61 x 50.9 cm (24 x 20 1/16 in.) ; framed: 67.9 x 57.4 x 5 cm (26 3/4 x 22 5/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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