"The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings, 24 through 26 June 1994"--P. [3]
Contents:
Section I: Arts of portraiture in the early colonies. Seventeenth-century Boston portraiture: profile of the establishment / Abbott Lowell Cummings -- The emergence of the portrait miniature in New England / Carol Aiken. -- Section II: New England portrait and miniature painters of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Brothers Blyth: Salem in its heyday / Bettina A. Norton -- The portraits of Richard and William Jennys and the story of their wayfaring lives / William Bright Jones -- Frederick Mayhew, "Limner": portarits of early-nineteenth century New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard / Andrew L. Thomas -- New England and New York portrait makers in Canada, 1760-1860 / Lydia Foy. --
Section III: Imaging and reproduction technologies. 1803: the year of the physiognotrace / Ellen G. Miles -- Machine-assisted portrait and prolific imaging in New England after 1803 / Peter Benes -- William J. Weaver's secret art of multiplying pictures / Paul D. Schweizer -- The portrait painter and engraver: cooperation and conflict / Leah Lipton. -- Section IV: Gender, iconography, and aesthetics. "The rising prospect or the lovely face": conventions of gender in colonial American portraiture / Deborah I. Prosser -- Facing paintings and painting faces before Lavater / David Steinberg --Toward a new understanding of the aesthetics of "folk" portraits / Ellen Hickey Grayson
Section V: Portrait making in the era of daguerreotypes and photographs. Erastus Salisbury Field: mezzographs and other experiments with photography in portrait painting / Diane E. Forsberg -- Horace Bundy: portraits painted from daguerreotypes / Lauren B. Hewes -- "The Visage once so dear": interpreting memorial photographs / Deborah A. Smith. -- Section VI: Bibliography and notes. Bibliography of studies of painting and portrait making in the American Northeast and contiguous portions of Canada before 1860 -- Lecture and museum program -- Abstracts of conference papers not appearing in this volume
