Beulah Appleton, by Sarah Goodridge, ca. 1840
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Beulah Appleton

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

ca. 1840

Medium
watercolor on ivory
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
sight 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. (6.7 x 5.7 cm) rectangle
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

This is a portrait of Sarah Goodridge’s niece, the daughter of Sarah’s sister Beulah and her husband, Thomas Appleton. Sarah also painted another miniature of one of the Appleton children, Sarah, with her cat, Sanko.