Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1956.93
Date:
1664
Notes:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 815.
Frank, Robin Jaffee, "Love and loss: American portrait and mourning miniatures," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, no. 1.
Summary:
This portrait of Elizabeth Eggington, one of the two earliest-known date seventeenth century New England portraits, was executed just before or just after the sitter's death. She wears a Holland hood, a white apron, and an elaborate gown adorned with yellow, green, and red bows at the elbows and neck. For jewelry she wears a gold and pearl pendant necklace and a portrait miniature of a man. In her left hand she holds a white feather fan.
