Girl of the Bangs-Phelps Family. #2
by Erastus Salisbury Field
Title
Girl of the Bangs-Phelps Family. #2
Artist
Erastus Salisbury Field
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Girl of the Bangs-Phelps Family. Artist: Erastus Salisbury Field (1805-1900). Dimensions: 58 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (149.2 x 76.8 cm). Date: ca. 1848.
Over a fifty-year career that included early training with Samuel F. B. Morse, Field became one of the most successful itinerant painters in antebellum New England and New York State. He developed a repertoire of compositional formulas to depict the features and surroundings of his sitters, who belonged to the emerging rural middle class. Field's portrait of a female member of the Bangs-Phelps family of Springfield, Massachusetts, presents her wearing an oversized, nicely detailed costume and holding a book in her right hand. The background is a soft gray color, with Field's distinctive shaded halo of space encircling the skillfully modeled face and sharply parted hair. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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