# Edward Appleton

- By: Sarah Goodridge (born Templeton, MA 1788-died Boston, MA 1853)
- Date: ca. 1835
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 3 5/8 x 3 in. (9.2 x 7.6 cm) rectangle, irregular
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=9336)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c22521076d1985d632beb7fff3e65def.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.