# Samuel Hopkins Lambdin

- By: James Reid Lambdin (born Pittsburgh, PA 1807-died KY 1889)
- Date: 1850
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 4 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. (11.1 x 8.9 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=14230)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/a39ff46b4f244b1b396ce74a711c8680.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Samuel Hopkins Lambdin, the artist’s younger brother, was born in Pittsburgh, but settled in Natchez, Mississippi. He became president of the Planters Bank of Mississippi, and in 1865 served as a delegate to the Reconstruction Convention. This miniature was exhibited in 1911 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts tenth annual Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters show.