Edward Appleton, by Sarah Goodridge, ca. 1835
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Edward Appleton

Sarah Goodridge (born Templeton, MA 1788-died Boston, MA 1853)

ca. 1835

Medium
watercolor on ivory
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
sight 3 5/8 x 3 in. (9.2 x 7.6 cm) rectangle, irregular
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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About this work

Edward Appleton was Sarah Goodridge’s nephew, the son of Sarah’s sister, Beulah Goodridge, and Thomas Appleton, who were married in Boston in 1812. In 1851, Sarah bought a house in Reading that she shared with her sister’s family.